Managers' and Overlookers' Society

This material is held atWorking Class Movement Library

Scope and Content

  • Photocopy of a booklet produced for the 50th anniversary of the Managers' and Overlookers' Society including a history of the Society (1927)
  • Cotton Students' pocket book (1938)
  • Rule book (1951)
  • Photocopy of history of the Society (1962)
  • Recruitment leaflet (no date)

Administrative / Biographical History

The Yorkshire Managers and Overlookers Society was formed in 1912. It changed its name to the Managers and Overlookers Society in 1921. In 1977 it joined the Association of Scientific, Technical and Supervisory Staffs.

Arthur Marsh, Victoria Ryan and John B Smethurst, Historical Directory of Trade unions volume 4, Scolar Press (Aldershot, Hants) 1994, page 263

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Related Material

Other records are available at the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick:

Managers' and Overlookers' Society (Yorkshire Managers' and Overlookers' Society before 1921), 1967-1973