1st Edition
A Short History of the British Working Class Movement (1937) Volume 1
This volume 1 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.
Volume 1 1789-1848: Preface CHAP.I. Introductory 1. Phases of Growth. 2. The Threshold of Industrialism. CHAP II. The Industrial Revolution 1. The Rise of Capitalism. 2. The Industrial Revolution. CHAP III. The French Revolution in Great Britain CHAP IV. War and Peace 1. Trade Union Struggles—The Years of War. 2. Unemployment, Revolt and Repression. CHAP V. Socialism and Reform 1. Socialist Origins. 2. The Repeal of the Combination Acts. 3. The Reform Movement. CHAP VI. Revolutionary Trade Unionism 1. Trades Unionism—The Laboured Revolt. 2. The Rise of Owenism. 3. The Operative Builders. 4. The Grand National Consolidated Trades Union CHAP VII. Chartism to 1839 1. The New Poor Law. 2. The Rise of Chartism. 3. The Chartist Convention of 1839. 4. The Newport Rising. CHAP VIII. Chartism — Later Phases 1. The Chartists and the Anti-Corn Law League. 2. Chartism—1840 to 1842. 3. The Land Scheme—The Year of Revolutions. 4. The Dissolution of Chartism. IX . The Condition of the Workers in the first half of the Nineteenth Century
Biography
G.D.H. Cole
