Tracing British unions from the journeymen’s clubs of the eighteenth century through the Combination Acts, the general unions of the 1830s and the cautious New Model societies to the rise of the Labour Party, the Webbs show how working men built lasting organisations. This revised edition adds a long account of the years from 1890 to 1920.
The founding history of the British labour movement, by two leading Fabians who helped found the London School of Economics. Download the free EPUB.