Comrade or Brother?

Mary Davis is Professor of Labour History at London Metropolitan University. She has written widely on labour and women's history, most recently Sylvia Pankhurst (Pluto, 1999) and Comrade or Brother? (Pluto, 2009).

Introduction


Part 1: The Industrial Revolution


1. Economic and Political Background 1780 - 1850


2. The Impact 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