Blowing With The Blackburn Trades
By: by Mick Pickup.
Publisher: Lancashire Community Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: UK
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 218
Subjects: Blackburn Trades Council Club -- History.
Description: Blackburn Trades Council Club closed in 1993.  It was never far from the headlines during the 13 years it served the town's labour movement.  Mick Pickup spent the last nine of these years on the management committee.  His sharply written tongue-in-cheek reflections of life behind the scenes are as entertaining as they are revealing.

This is an important book for anyone interested in the labour movement.  Valuable lessons are there to be learned about running similar institutions.  But it also has appeal to everyone else due to its down-to-earth working class humour.

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