David Howell. British Workers and the Independent Labour Party, 1888-1906.

Contents

Preface

1 – Images and emphases

Part 1

Trade union bases

2 – Mining

3 – Cotton

4 – Railways

5 – Two craft unions

6 – New Unionism

Conclusion: Diversity, ambiguity, clarity

Part 2

Political spaces

7 – Scotland

8 – The Yorkshire woollen district

9 – The Lancastrian party

10 – ILP islands

11 – Dogs that did not bark

Conclusion: The mosaic of ILP politics

Part 3

A national party

12 – Formation

13 – The National Administrative Council—from servant to oligarch

14 – Pragmatic visionaries—a portrait of branch life

Part 4

Significance

15 – Proposals and assumptions

16 – Connections and exclusions

17 – Some thoughts on alternatives

Appendix 1: Summary of major events

Appendix 2: The Bradford Conference