Comrade or Brother? : a history of the British labour movement /
'The book stands comparison with A.L. Morton's 'People's History' and G.D.H. Cole's 'Common People'. But it is more than just this. It is in a real sense a history for our own times.' John Foster, Emeritus Professor, University of the West of Scotland...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York, NY. :
Pluto Press,
2009.
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Edición: | 2nd ed. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Part 1: The Industrial Revolution. 1: Economic and political background 1780
- 1850 ; 2: The ompact of the French Revolution 1789
- 1815 ; 3: 1815
- 1836 post war radicalism ; 4: The age of chartism
- Part 2: 1850
- 1920, the workshop of the world and beyond. 5: Economic and political background 1850
- 1918 ; 6: Trade unions, politics and the labour aristocracy 1850
- 1880 ; 7: The rise of a mass labour movement
- trade unionism, 1880s
- 1914 ; 8: The rise of a mass labour movement
- socialist politics, 1880s
- 1914 ; 9: Labour, the shop stewards' movement and the First World War
- Part 3: Re-adjustment. 10: Economic and political background 1920
- 1951 ; 11: Labour governments and unemployment 1920
- 1931 ; 12: Trade unions, the general strike and the aftermath ; 13: The labour movement, fascism and anti-fascism and war ; 14: War and peace 1940
- 1951 ; 15: The workers the labour movement forgot
- women and Black people 1926
- 1951 ; 16: 1951
- 1979 consensus politics?
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Index.