National Union of Pearl Agents (NUPA)

This collection contains: minutes of executive council and other meetings; 'Pearl Agents' Gazette' (monthly) and other publications; industrial tribunal cases; minutes of branch meeting in Newcastle upon Tyne.

In 1926 the Pearl Section of the National Amalgamated Union of Life Assurance Workers broke away to form the National Union of Pearl Agents. In 1964 the National Union of Pearl Agents was succeeded by the Pearl Section of the National Union of Insurance Workers (successor to the National Amalgamated Union of Life Assurance Workers). The Association of Scientific, Technical and Managerial Staffs (ASTMS) Pearl Section succeeded the Pearl Section of the National Union of Insurance Workers in 1974.

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).

This collection is available to researchers by appointment at the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick. See http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/using/

Link to full catalogue: http://mrc-catalogue.warwick.ac.uk/records/PAS

Deposited by the Association of Scientific, Technical and Managerial Staffs.

Records of the National Union of Insurance Workers Pearl Section, the National Union of Pearl Assurance Agents' successor, and the Pearl Unions Federation, earlier the National Joint Council of Pearl Employees.