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Comrade or Brother? : A History of the British Labour Movement.

Davis, Mary.

Comrade or Brother? : A History of the British Labour Movement. - 2nd ed. - 1 online resource (310 pages)

Intro -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL BACKGROUND, 1780- 1850 -- 2 THE IMPACT OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, 1789- 1815 -- 3 POSTWAR RADICALISM, 1815-1836 -- 4 THE AGE OF CHARTISM -- 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 -- 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? -- IN CONCLUSION -- INDEX.

A revised, updated and expanded edition of this classic feminist account of British labour history.

9781849643153


Labor movement -- Great Britain -- History.
Labor unions -- Great Britain -- History.
Working class -- Political activity -- Great Britain -- History.
Women -- Employment -- Great Britain -- History.
Blacks -- Employment -- Great Britain -- History.
Industrial relations -- Great Britain -- History.
Labor policy -- Great Britain -- History.


Electronic books.

HD8388.D27 2009

331.88/0941

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