A. Reid. United We Stand: A History of Britain’s Trade Unions.

Contents

Introduction

Prologue

1 – From Medieval Guilds to Modern Trade Unions      

PART ONE

The 1770s to the 1820s

2 – Local Organization among the Assembly Workers      

3 – Problems of Organization among the Process Workers      

4 – Trade Unionists and Extra-parliamentary Radicalism      

PART TWO

The 1820s to the 1870s

5 – Financial Centralization among the Assembly Workers      

6 – State Intervention among the Process Workers      

7 – Trade Unionists and Popular Liberalism      

PART THREE

The 1870s to the 1920s

8 – National Bargaining among the Assembly Workers      

9 – Union Recognition among the Process Workers      

10 – New Organizations among the General Workers      

11 – Trade Unionists and the Origins of the Labour Party      

PART FOUR

The 1920s to the 1970s

12 – Shop-floor Bargaining among the Assembly Workers

13 – Industrial Decline among the Process Workers

14 – Federal Organization among the General Workers

15 – Trade Unionists and Labour in Power

Epilogue

16 – The End or a New Beginning?