Lowe, Hugh
2011 "Lowe, Hugh", 2013, HistoryTalk Hugh Lowe started an apprenticeship at EMI in Hayes, West London in the late 1930s and stayed there throughout the war as it was a reserved occupation. He studied electronics at night school and left EMI in 1947 to join a small radio firm in Willesden,...
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"Lowe, Hugh", 2013, HistoryTalk
Hugh Lowe started an apprenticeship at EMI in Hayes, West London in the late 1930s and stayed there throughout the war as it was a reserved occupation. He studied electronics at night school and left EMI in 1947 to join a small radio firm in Willesden, and then to work as an electronics engineer in the Medical Research Council, firstly at Imperial College and later at Northwick Park Hospital in Harrow. It was an interesting period with rapid increases in knowledge about the impact of genetics and environment on disease following the discovery of DNA in in the 1950s.
He was a member of the Association of Scientific Workers, later the Association of Scientific , Technical and Managerial Staffs, and became Chair of the Staff Side of the Negotiating Committee at the MRC, involved in a variety of collective bargaining issues including Government expenditure on research and occupational pensions. He also talks about Clive Jenkins, the unions General Secretary and the rise of white collar unionism and about Mike Cooley and alternative workers plans at Lucas Aerospace Industries.
He joined the Communist Party during the war and left to join the Trotskyist International Marxist Group about 1971, remaining active in a broad range of national and international political campaigns. After retirement, Hugh became involved in London Health Emergency and various campaigns connected with the National Health Service, care of the elderly and those with mental illness. He later focussed more on pensions and other issues relating to the elderly and worked with the Greater London Pensioners Association, the National Pensioners Convention and community groups in Ealing.
In his clip he talks about Jacques Delors and the Social Chapter.
Click on the pdf icon to read the entire transcript or click on the mp3 icon to hear a clip of the interview. The transcript has been summarised and was published in Labour Heritage Bulletin, Spring 2013. |
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| institution | TUC - Trade Union Congress Library |
| is_hierarchy_title | Lowe, Hugh |
| language | English |
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| publishDate | 2013 |
| publisher | London |
| spellingShingle | Trade Union Congress, UK Oral history interview Lowe, Hugh |
| title | Lowe, Hugh |
| topic | Trade Union Congress, UK Oral history interview |
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