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United Commercial Travellers' Association of Great Britain and Ireland (UCTA)... United Commercial Travellers' Association of Great Britain and Ireland (UCTA), 1877-1981


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  • 1877-1981
  • Collection
  • Central board/annual conference minutes, 1888-1966; signed minutes of executive council and various committees, 1897-1965 (with enclosures dating from 1877); annual returns under Companies Acts, 1938-1949; membership registers, 1933-1954; 'On the Road'/'Selling Today (members' journal), 1883-1974; members' handbook, 1963; history of union, 1953, with photographs of officers, c1920; board minutes of the United Kingdom Commercial Travellers' Printing and Publishing Company Limited, 1915-1918 (with enclosures dating from 1884); records of the North London, Birmingham, Sutton Coldfield, Walsall, Worcester, Bournemouth, Poole, Christchurch and Hebden Bridge branches, the Midland Counties Federation and the Eastern Counties Federation, 1888-1981; collecting box and car badge.
  • 74 boxes (68 [MSS.79], 5 [1018], 1 [1267])
  • The United Commercial Travellers' Association was founded in 1883. Following its incorporation in 1902 , its full title was the United Commercial Travellers' Association of Great Britain and Ireland (U.K.C.T.A.) Incorporated. It merged with the Association of Scientific, Technical and Managerial Staffs (ASTMS) in 1976 to form the ASTMS UCTA Section. Reference: George S. Bain, 'Growth of white-collar unionism' (Clarendon : Oxford, 1970); Clive Jenkins and Barrie Sherman, White collar unionism : the rebellious salariat' (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1979).
  • Unpublished records are closed for 30 years after their latest date. The approval of Unite, the successor union, is to be sought for the publication of previously unpublished material.
  • Open
  • Records of the UCTA Section of the Association of Scientific, Technical and Managerial Staffs (ASTMS)
  • English

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Foundation and Constitution Policy and administration Membership Research Communications and publicity The United Kingdom Commercial Travellers' Printing and Publishing Company Limited. North London Commercial Travellers' Association (later branch) Birmingham branch Sutton Coldfield branch Walsall branch Midland Counties Federation Worcester branch Bournemouth branch Poole branch Christchurch branch Eastern Counties Federation (comprising Colchester, Ipswich, King's Lynn, Great Yarmouth, Norwich and Bury St Edmunds) Miscellaneous Additional branch records Hebden Bridge branch