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This is volume 3 of the set A Short History of the British Working Class Movement (1937). The volumes reprinted here provide a general narrative of the history of the working class movement in all its main aspects - Trade Unions, Socialism and Co-operatives. The historical focus is upon the latter part of the eighteenth century, set against a background of economic and social history.
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INDEX
ABNORMAL piace, 90 f.
Africa, 15
Agricultural production, 152
Agricultural Wages Board, 133, 184, 192
Agricultural Workers’ Unions, 104, 133, 137, 185, 186
Agriculture and the War, 133, 145, 149
Amalgamation Movement, 74, 93, 139 ff., 161 f.
Anarchism, 72
Arbitration. See Conciliation.
Arbitration, compulsory, 120, 161, 166, 173.
Armaments Committees, 132
Armistice, 122, 135, 141
Askwith, Lord, 110
Asquith, H. H., 48, 98, 121, 132, 134, 137
Astbury, Justice, 214
Australia, 14
BALDWIN, Stanley, 187, 195, 207, 209, 210
Balfour of Burleigh, Lord, 137
Bank of England, 149
Banks, joint stock, 149 f.
Barnes, G. N., 121
Beasley, Mr., 28 ff.
Belfast strikes, 66, 104, 167
Bell, Richard, 34, 35, 37 f.
Belloc, Hilaire, 52
Besant, Annie, 23
Bevin, Ernest, 174, 202
Black Friday, 181 f., 201, 204
Blatchford, Robert, 55
Boer War, 34
Boilermakers, 66, 69, 186
Bolshevism. See Communism.
Bonus shares, 148
Boot and Shoe operatives, 126
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Original Title Page
- Introduction to the New Edition
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Preface
- Contents
- I. The New Century
- II. The Rise of the Labour Party
- III. 1906 and After
- IV. The Great Unrest
- V. Trade Unionism in Action
- VI. Labour in War-Time
- VII. Post-War Britain
- VIII. Labour After the War
- IX. The “General Strike” and After
- X. The Condition of the Workers in the First Quarter of the Twentieth Century
- Charts and Figures
- Index