John Rule, ed. British Trade Unionism, 1750-1850.

Contents

1 – The Formative Years of British Trade Unionism: An Overview / John Rule

2 – The Industrial Moral Economy of the Gloucestershire Weavers in the Eighteenth Century / Adrian Randall

3 – Workers and Machinery in Eighteenth-century England / Maxine Berg

4 – From Suppression to Containment: Roots of Trade Union Law to 1825 / James Moher

5 – Tolpuddle in the Context of English Agrarian Labour History, 1780-1850 / Roger Wells

6 – The Scots Colliers’ Strikes of 1824-1826: the Years of Freedom and Independence / Alan Campbell

7 – The Democracy of Work, 1820-1850 / Clive Behagg

8 – Trade Unionism and Class Consciousness: the ‘Revolutionary’ Period of General Unionism, 1829-1834 / Robert Sykes

9 – Unionism, Class and Community in the 1830s: Aspects of the National Union of Operative Potters / Robert Fyson

10 – Bristol Trade Unions in the Chartist Years / David McNulty

11 – Employers and Trade Unions, 1824-1850 / Michael Haynes