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Comrade or Brother?
A History of the British Labour Movement
Second Edition
MARY DAVIS
PLUTO PRESS
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First published 1993
Second edition published 2009 by Pluto Press
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Copyright © Mary Davis 1993, 2009
The right of Mary Davis to be identifi ed as the author of this work has
been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and
Patents Act 1988.
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ISBN 978 0 7453 2577 4 hardback
ISBN 978 0 7453 2576 7 paperback
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To my mother, Celia Davis (
née
Yampolsky), for the past and
the present, and for the rich heritage bequeathed to me by the
once large Yampolsky family – Jewish immigrants to Bethnal
Green from Tsarist Russia.
To my children, Joseph and Esther, and my grandchildren,
Callum, Leah, Luis, Charlie, Ella and Hannah, for the joy of
the present and the hope of the future.
CONTENTS
Introduction
1
PART 1 THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
1 Economic and Political Background, 1780–1850
11
2 The Impact of the French Revolution, 1789–1815
25
3 Postwar Radicalism, 1815–1836
37
4 The Age of Chartism
52
PART 2 THE WORKSHOP OF THE WORLD AND BEYOND, 1850–1920
5 Economic and Political Background, 1850–1918
73
6 Trade Unions, Politics and the Labour Aristocracy,
1850–1880
95
7 The Rise of a Mass Labour Movement –
Trade Unionism, 1880s–1914
110
8 The Rise of a Mass Labour Movement –
Socialist Politics, 1880s–1914
126
9 Labour, the Shop Stewards’ Movement and
the First World War
142
PART 3 READJUSTMENT
10 Economic and Political Background, 1920–1951
161
11 Labour Governments and Unemployment,
1920–1931 176
12 Trade Unions, the General Strike and the Aftermath 191
13 The Labour Movement, Fascism and anti-Fascism,
and War
209
14 War and Peace, 1940–1951
226
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