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Author Davis, Mary, 1947-

Title Comrade or Brother? : a history of the British labour movement / Mary Davis.

Publication Info. London ; New York, NY. : Pluto Press, 2009.

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Edition 2nd ed.
Description 1 online resource (viii, 304 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
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Subject Labor movement -- Great Britain -- History.
Labor movement.
Great Britain.
History.
Labor unions -- Great Britain -- History.
Labor unions.
Working class -- Political activity -- Great Britain -- History.
Working class -- Political activity.
Women -- Employment -- Great Britain -- History.
Women -- Employment.
Black people -- Employment -- Great Britain -- History.
Black people -- Employment.
Industrial relations -- Great Britain -- History.
Industrial relations.
Labor policy -- Great Britain -- History.
Labor policy.
Great Britain -- Politics and government.
Politics and government.
Chronological Term Geschichte
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Subject Women.
Womyn.
Other Form: Print version: Davis, Mary, 1947- Comrade or Brother? 2nd ed. London ; New York, NY. : Pluto Press, 2009 9780745325774 (DLC) 2009499289 (OCoLC)294888334
ISBN 9781849643153 (electronic book)
1849643156 (electronic book)