Chapters in this book

1. Front matter i
2. Contents v
3. List of figures and tables vii
4. Notes on contributors viii
5. Acknowledgements xii
6. Abbreviations xiv
7. Introduction 1
8. PART I: Labour’s first century: disputed solidarities
9. 1 The Grand National Consolidated Trades’ Union, 1833–1834 21
10. 2 The Knights of Labor and the British trade unions, 1880–1900 33
11. 3 The struggle for control of the Durham Miners’ Association, 1890s–1915 49
12. 4 Contested coordinator 66
13. 5 Domestic servants and the labour movement, 1870s–1914 83
14. PART II: Convergences, divergences and realignments on the left
15. 6 ‘The people’s main defence against monopoly’? 101
16. 7 The British left’s attitude towards the Battle of Athens, December 1944–February 1945 122
17. 8 The decline of revolutionary pragmatism and the splintering of British communism in the 1980s 138
18. 9 Re-framing the debate on breakaway trade unions in an era of neoliberalism 153
19. 10 English teachers’ unions since 2010 171
20. PART III: The Labour Party today: fragmentation or mutation?
21. 11 Dissent in the Parliamentary Labour Party, 1945–2015 193
22. 12 ‘What dire effects from civil discord flow’ 221
23. 13 The conflicting loyalties of the Scottish Labour Party 238
24. 14 The ‘movementisation’ of the Labour Party and the future of labour organising 254
25. Concluding remarks 271
26. Index 280