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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Davis, Mary, 1947-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York, NY. : Pluto Press, 2009.
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.