Players' Work Time: A History of the British Musicians' Union, 1893â "2013

by John Williamson and Martin Cloonan

Book Overview

This book examines the working lives of musicians over the past 120 years via the history of the Musicians' Union. The union has been at the centre of all major agreements covering the employment of musicians across the UK's music industries for this period and its role to date has largely been ignored by historians of the music profession, the music industries and trade unions. This book remedies that oversight, providing fresh insight to musicians'...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1526113945
• ISBN13: 9781526113948
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"