Biblioteca / 1940-1949 1970-1979
Eric Hobsbawm, editor. Labour’s Turning Point, 1880-1900. Extracts from contemporary sources.
Londres: Lawrence & Wishart, 1948.
2da edición con nuevo prefacio, Sussex, Ing.: Harvester Press, 1974.
xxvi, 166 páginas.
CONTENTS
Introduction
PART ONE
OLD UNIONS: SOME ARISTOCRATS OF LABOUR
1 – AN INDIVIDUALIST
2 – CRAFTSMAN AND LABOURER IN SHIPBUILDING
3 – DIVISIONS WITHIN THE WORKING CLASS
4 – EXCLUSIVENESS
5 – SUB-CONTRACTORS
6 – PRICES MUST GOVERN WAGES
7 – HOUSE DECORATORS ON THE STATE OF TRADE
8 – OUTLOOK OF WOODWORKERS
9 – BOILERMAKERS AND “GENTLEMEN’S AGREEMENTS”
10 – AGAINST TRADE UNIONS IN POLITICS
11 – INDUSTRIAL PEACE
12 – CO-OPERATION: TRADE UNIONS AND CO-OPS
13 – TO IMPROVE THE CO-OPS
14 – MIDLAND MINERS AND CO-OPS
15 – CO-OPERATIVE PRODUCTION
PART TWO
FROM RADICALISM TO SOCIALISM
16 – ENGELS PREDICTS THE REBIRTH OF SOCIALISM
A – Radicalism
17 – RADICAL OPINION: FROM THE STAR, 1888
18 – TORY IMPERIALISM
19 – BRADLAUGH AND PARLIAMENT
20 – RADICALS AND LABOUR: A LEFT RADICAL VIEW
21 – RADICAL AND SOCIALIST: SOUTTER AND QUELCH
22 – QUEEN VICTORIA’S JUBILEE, 1887
23 – FREE SPEECH AND “BLOODY SUNDAY”
24 – UNIONS AND POLITICS IN RURAL BUCKS
B – The Irish
25 – THE IRISH INFLUENCE
26 – MICHAEL DAVTTT’S AIMS
27 – THE HARP IN THE DOCK STRIKE
C – Towards Socialism
28 – FROM RADICALISM TO SOCIALISM
a – H. W. Lee
b – James H. W. Macdonald
29 – THROUGH ATHEISM TO SOCIALISM: H. SNELL
30 – FROM CHAPEL TO SOCIALISM
31 – FROM BIRTH CONTROL TO LAND NATIONALISATION AND SOCIALISM: TOM MANN
32 – ARTIST AND SOCIALIST: WILLIAM MORRIS
PART THREE
DISCUSSING SOCIALISM
33 – WHAT’S WRONG WITH CAPITALISM? OLD STYLE THEORIES
34 – LAND NATIONALISATION AND SINGLE TAX
35 – WHATS’S WRONG WITH CAPITALISM? H. M. HYNDMAN EXPLAINS
36 – SOCIALISM NO LONGER UTOPIAN: H. M. HYNDMAN
37 – GAS AND WATER SOCIALISM. SIDNEY WEBB
38 – SOCIALISM: THE OLD UNIONIST’S VIEW
39 – SOCIALIST GROUPS: AIMS OF THE SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC FEDERATION, 1884
40 – SOCIALIST GROUPS: THE SOCIALIST LEAGUE MANIFESTO
41 – SOCIALISM MEANS POLITICS: W. MORRIS
42 – THE POLITICAL OUTLOOK, 1886: W. MORRIS
43 – ABSTENTION FROM PARLIAMENT: W. MORRIS
44 – PARTIAL REFORMS: SOCIALIST LEAGUE VIEW
45 – PARTIAL REFORMS: W. MORRIS
46 – THE FABIAN “BASIS,” 1886
47 – FABIAN POLICY, 1896
48 – WHAT SOCIALISM MEANS, 1893
49 – WHAT WILL SOCIALISM BE LIKE? WEBB
50 – WHAT WILL SOCIALISM BE LIKE? WILLIAM MORRIS
51 – THE DEEPER MEANING OF THE STRUGGLE: WILLIAM MORRIS
52 – CLASS WAR NOT WANTED: FABIAN SOCIETY
53 – THE I.L.P. AND CLASS WAR
54 – YOUNG RAMSAY MACDONALD’S VIEW
PART FOUR
OLD AND NEW UNIONISM
A – Old Unions under Fire
55 – SCOTS MASONS FACE A CRISIS
56 – TOM MANN CRITICISES THE UNIONS
57 – JOHN BURNS ON THE OLD UNIONS
58 – OLD AND NEW UNIONISM: JOHN BURNS
59 – WHAT IS THE USE OF TRADE UNIONS? H. M. HYNDMAN
60 – WHAT IS THE USE OF TRADE UNIONS? SIDNEY WEBB
B – Rise and Growth of New Unionism
61 – BRADFORD WEAVERS
62 – THE MINERS FEDERATION: OBJECTS
63 – THE SOUTH WALES MINERS’ LEADER
64 – THE BRYANT AND MAY GIRLS
65 – A UNION IS BORN: THE GASWORKERS ORGANISE, 1889
66 – NEW UNIONS: TECHNICAL PROBLEMS
67 – THE DOCKERS BEFORE THE STRIKE
68 – SCENES FROM THE DOCK STRIKE
a – Tom Mann in Charge of Relief
b – The Daily Meeting on Tower Hill
c – The Procession through the City
69 – AFTER THE DOCK STRIKE: A VETERAN’S WELCOME
70 – UNION NEWS: DOCKERS AFTER THE STRIKE
71 – THE DOCKERS’ UNION DESCRIBES ITS EMBLEM
72 – AGRICULTURAL WORKERS
a – Tom Mann in Lincolnshire
b – George Edwards in Norfolk
73 – WOMEN START A UNION
74 – WOMEN AND THE CO-OP GUILD
75 – STEAM TUG MEN DEMAND A RISE
76 – CHEMICAL WORKERS ADVANCE
77 – LONDON TRANSPORT WORKERS
78 – OMNIBUS STRIKE AND LONDON TRADES COUNCIL
79 – PUTTING LIFE INTO TRADES COUNCILS
80 – SCABS: OFFICE HOURS
81 – FLUCTUATION: SOUTHAMPTON DOCKERS
C – Issues of New Unionism
82 – THE OLD UNIONISTS’ CREED
a – Henry Broadhurst
b – E. Cowey
83 – THE NEW UNIONIST OUTLOOK: TOM MANN AND BEN TILLETT
84 – THE GASWORKERS’ STATEMENT OF AIMS, 1889 AND 1892
85 – FOR THE LEGAL EIGHT-HOUR DAY
a – Keir Hardie
b – W. Matkin
c – James Macdonald
86 – AGAINST THE LEGAL EIGHT-HOUR DAY
a – W. Mosses
b – D. Holmes
c – D. Holmes
87 – NEW UNIONISTS LOOK AT LONDON TRADES COUNCIL
88 – THE ENGINEERS ALTER THEIR RULES
89 – THE WORKERS UNION: UNITY OF SKILLED AND UNSKILLED
90 – SOCIALISTS AND TRADE UNIONS, 1893
a – S.D.F. versus Pete Curran
b – Clarion
D – International
91 – SOLIDARITY, 1887
92 – ORIGIN OF THE MAY DAY DEMONSTRATIONS, 1889-90
93 – THE FIRST LONDON MAY DAY, 1890
94 – LIBERAL TRADE UNIONISTS FOR INTERNATIONAL ACTION
95 – THE INTERNATIONAL TRANSPORT WORKERS
PART FIVE
INDEPENDENT LABOUR AND SOCIALIST PROPAGANDISTS
A – Towards Independent Politics
96 – A LARGER SHARE OF THE NATIONAL LIFE: R. D. B. RITCHIE
97 – KEIR HARDIE’S ELECTION ADDRESS, 1888
98 – MICHAEL DAVITT TO THE KNIGHTS OF LABOUR
99 – APPEAL FOR AN INDEPENDENT LABOUR PARTY, 1889
100 – THE BRADFORD LABOUR UNION, 1891
101 – FABIAN SCEPTICISM, 1891
102 – THE NAME OF THE PARTY
103 – BLATCHFORD ON LABOUR REPRESENTATION
B – Local Government
104 – THE CO-OP AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT
105 – ELECTION FUND FOR LABOUR CANDIDATES, 1889
106 – AN EARLY I.L.P.-ER’s ELECTION ADDRESS, 1893
107 – THE POOR LAW
108 – UNEMPLOYED KEEP AWAY FROM POOR RELIEF: PONTYPOOL
109 – OLD AGE AND THE WORKHOUSE
110 – A SMALL TOWN IS NOT REHOUSED (ALNWICK)
111 – LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN STOKE GIFFORD, 1896
112 – PROGRESSIVES IN LONDON
a – Election Campaign Song, 1892
b – Victory Headlines
113 – LOCAL LABOUR CANDIDATES, 1898
114 – VICTORY AND RETROSPECT: WEST HAM
C – The Propagandists
115 – SELLING LITERATURE
116 – SOME S.D.F. PIONEERS
117 – TO THE UNEMPLOYED, 1886
118 – HOW TO TRAIN FOR PUBLIC LIFE: G. B. SHAW
119 – “FACTS FOR SOCIALISTS”
120 – LABOUR CHURCHES
121 – CHIMNEY SWEEP PROPAGANDIST
122 – AN OLD I.L.P.-ER LOOKS BACK
123 – CLARION CYCLISTS
124 – THE MINERS HEAR ABOUT SOCIALISM
125 – KEIR HARDIE THE REBEL
126 – AN OUTSIDER’S VIEW OF TOM MANN
PART SIX
THE EMPLOYERS’ COUNTER-ATTACK
127 – SHIPOWNERS ORGANISE
128 – A SAD GAP IN THE LAW
129 – BLACKLEG TICKET
130 – THE HULL FIGHT, 1893
131 – THE COAL WAR, 1893
132 – CO-OPS AND THE COAL WAR, 1893
133 – RESULTS OF THE COAL WAR, 1893
134 – LIBERALS RECAPTURE THE T.U.C., 1895
135 – ONE RESULT OF THE BLOCK VOTE, 1896-9
136 – THE ENGINEERS LOCK-OUT: 1897
a – The Men’s Case
b – The Employers’ Case
137 – ALL-OUT COUNTER-ATTACK
138 – ENGINEERS AND MACHINES
139 – TOWARDS UNION FEDERATION
140 – TAFF VALE: A STRIKE-BREAKER REMEMBERS
141 – TAFF VALE AND THE LAW
142 – THE LABOUR PARTY