Titlebook: Blind Workers against Charity; The National League Matthias Reiss Book 2015 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited

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,New Union or Poor People’s Movement? Building the National League of the Blind, workers in Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Members of the League were given seats on committees dealing with the welfare of blind people, employers accepted the organisation as a collective bargaining partner, and the TUC as well as the Labour Party had made the League’s key political demands their own.

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Success at Last? The League and the Consolidation of the Welfare State,ommittee on the Welfare of the Blind, but the value of such representation was already being discussed again just two years later.. Even its decision to sit on the Wireless for the Blind Committee triggered protests from branches in the early 19305..

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A Changing Relationship: The League and Charity in the Post-War Era,the Golden Jubilee, membership had already declined to 6,665 individuals and the League had lost nine branches. On its 75th Anniversary in 1974, the League had only 4,250 members. By February 2000, when the League ceased to file independent returns, this had fallen to 1,755 people..

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Introduction,an entitlement to statutory provisions. It is a work of history and as such is predominantly concerned with challenging assumptions about the past. Nevertheless, it is hoped that this book will also be of interest to disability scholars and activists as it examines how a relatively small organisatio

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,‘Justice not Charity’: Framing the Message,tion of the claims for which they stand,’ the President of the National League of the Blind wrote in 1908.. In order to successfully compete with these other causes and bring Parliament to pass a bill which provided direct state aid for blind people outside of the framework of charity, the League ha

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Mutually Exclusive Principles? Trade Unionism and Charity,r limited to regulating industrial relations and it took a while before it fully developed its identity as a trade union. The League’s hostility towards charity, on the other hand, remained the one constant element in the organisation’s long history and its defining characteristic. Becoming a trade

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