Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword to the Fifth Edition, 2007 ix
4. Acknowledgements xiii
5. Working People 1
6. Getting Organized 9
7. International Ideas 17
8. Political Movement 25
9. Labour Reformers 35
10. Hinterland Labour 45
11. Trades and Labour 57
12. Gompers’s Shadow 67
13. Business, Labour, and Governments 77
14. Labour Radicals 91
15. Labour and the First World War 101
16. Western Revolt 113
17. Unroaring Twenties 125
18. Surviving the Depression 139
19. Industrial Unionism 151
20. Fighting Hitler and Management 165
21. "People Coming into Their Own" 175
22. No Falling Back 187
23. Struggle for Allegiance 201
24. The Merger Movement 213
25. Times of Frustration 225
26. Prosperity and Discontent 239
27. Public Interest, Public Service 255
28. Justice and Nationalism 270
29. Quebec and the Common Front 282
30. Scapegoat for Inflation 294
31. Recession and Hard Times 308
32. Levelling the Playing Field 320
33. Struggling to the Millennium 336
34. Millennial Achievements 354
35. Further Reading 370
36. Abbreviations 392
37. Index 395