“Broker Or Brakeman?”: An Analysis Of Parliamentary Debates On Schuman Plan Between British Labour And Conservative Parties*

The independent Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) was created in 2007 after a decade in which the share of foreign-born workers in the British labour force doubled to 13 per cent. The initial core mandate of the MAC was to provide “independent, evidence-based advice to government on specific skilled occupations in the labour market where shortages exist which can sensibly be filled by migration.” The MAC's answers to these 3-S questions, viz, is the occupation for which employers are requesting foreign workers skilled, are there labour shortages, and is admitting foreign workers a sensible response, have improved the quality of the debate over the “need” for foreign workers in the UK by highlighting some of the important trade-offs inherent in migration policy making. The MAC can clarify migration trade-offs in labour immigration policy, but cannot decide the ultimately political questions about whose interests should be prioritised and how competing policy objectives should be balanced.

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A History of British Labour Law 1867–1945, Douglas Brodie

Edinburgh Law Review ◽

10.3366/elr.2005.9.1.183 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 9 (1) ◽

pp. 183-184

Author(s):

Kenneth Miller

Keyword(s):

Labour Law ◽

British Labour ◽

History Of

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Civil Jurisdiction, Settler Politics, and the Colonial Constitution, circa 1840-58

Victoria University of Wellington Law Review ◽

10.26686/vuwlr.v39i3.5473 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 39 (3) ◽

pp. 497 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Damen Ward

Keyword(s):

Lower Court ◽

Parliamentary Debates ◽

Early Colonial ◽

Responsible Government ◽

The Supreme Court ◽

Competing Ideas ◽

Politics And Law ◽

The Relationship ◽

Institutional Relationships

In early colonial politics, decisions about lower court jurisdiction often reflected competing ideas about the relationship between different parts and functions of government. In particular, court structure and jurisdiction could be seen as having important implications for the role and power of the governor. Appreciating the importance of jurisdiction as a way of defining, and arguing about, the distribution and exercise of political and legal authority in the colonial constitution allows connections to be drawn between different elements of settler politics in the 1840s and 1850s. The closing of the Court of Requests by Governor Grey in 1848, and the decisions of the Supreme Court judges in subsequent litigation, provide examples of this. Debate over the role of the governor in emerging systems of representative and responsible government after 1852 contributed to lower court jurisdiction remaining politically significant, particularly in relation to Māori. This is shown by considering parliamentary debates about the Stafford ministry's 1858 proposals for resident magistrates' jurisdiction over "native districts". The politics of jurisdiction were part of wider contests about the establishment and consolidation of particular political and institutional relationships within the colonial constitution. This multi-faceted construction of government authority suggests a need to reconsider elements of Pākehā colonial politics and law.

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British Labour im Ersten Weltkrieg: Die Ausnahmesituation des Krieges 1914-1918 als Problem und Chance der britischen Arbeiterbewegung, by Rudolf KlepschBritish Labour im Ersten Weltkrieg: Die Ausnahmesituation des Krieges 1914-1918 als Problem und Chance der britischen Arbeiterbewegung, by Rudolf Klepsch. Gottingen, Verlag Traugott Bautz, 1983. 375 pp. 58,- DM.

Canadian Journal of History ◽

10.3138/cjh.20.1.149 ◽

1985 ◽

Vol 20 (1) ◽

pp. 149-150

Author(s):

Frank Eyck

Keyword(s):

British Labour

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1830: van de Belgische protonatie naar de natiestaat (deel 1)

WT. Tijdschrift over de geschiedenis van de Vlaamse beweging ◽

10.21825/wt.v66i3.12556 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 66 (3) ◽

pp. 199-227

Author(s):

Lode Wils

Keyword(s):

French Revolution ◽

Scientific Literature ◽

Nation State ◽

Final Phase ◽

Nineteen Twenties ◽

Parliamentary Debates ◽

The North ◽

Binding Factor ◽

Southern Netherlands ◽

The Creation

In dit eerste deel van zijn uiteenzetting poneert Lode Wils de door zijn bronnen onderbouwde stelling dat het ontstaan van de Belgische (natie)staat de feitelijke slotfase was van een passage van de protonatie(s) in de Zuidelijke Nederlanden doorheen de grote politiek-maatschappelijke en culturele mutaties na de Franse Revolutie. Een passage die tijdens de late twintiger jaren van de negentiende eeuw bovendien sterk gekruid werd door het Belgisch 'wij'-denken dat meer en meer het cement ging vormen in de parlementaire en buitenparlementaire contestatie tegen het Hollandse regime.Wils verbindt in zijn uiteenzetting zijn eigen onderzoek omtrent de "cruciale parlementaire debatten in de jaren 1827-1830" aan zijn lectuur van de wetenschappelijke literatuur die zowel in het Noorden als in het Zuiden werd gewijd aan die problematiek, in bijzonderheid de doctoraalstudie L’invention de la Belgique. Genèse d’un Etat-Nation. 1648-1830 van de UCL-historiograaf Sébastien Dubois. Betekenisvol is overigens de frase van Wils waarin hij stelt dat Dubois zich "na het doorworstelen van bijna 2000 archiefbundels, ergert aan de voorstelling alsof niet het koninkrijk, maar 'België' geschapen werd in 1830."________1830: from the Belgian pre-nation to the nation state [part I]In this first part of his discourse Lode Wils puts forward the thesis corroborated by his sources that the creation of the Belgian (nation)state was in fact the final phase of a transition from the pre-nation(s) of the Southern Netherlands through the major socio-political and cultural mutations after the French Revolution. During the late nineteen twenties this transition was particularly marked by the Belgian “we-thinking” that gradually came to be the binding factor in the parliamentary and extra-parliamentary protest against the Dutch regime. In his argument Wils connects his own research into the “crucial parliamentary debates during the period of 1827-1830” to his reading of the scientific literature, which was dedicated to that issue both in the North and in the South, in particular to the doctoral dissertation by the UCL historiographer Sébastien Dubois L’invention de la Belgique. Genèse d’un Etat-Nation. 1648-1830 (The invention of Belgium. Genesis of a Nation State: 1648-1830). We note in particular Will’s remark that Dubois “after having waded through almost 2000 archival volumes is irritated by the conception that 1830 saw the creation not of the kingdom but of ‘Belgium’.”

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