Thomas Jarman. Socialism in Britain. From the Industrial Revolution to the Present Day.

CONTENTS

Preface

Introduction: Socialism—its Meaning and Background

Part I

The Working Class is Born: Beginnings of British Socialism

1 – The Industrial Revolution

2 – Robert Owen and Socialism

3 – Other Socialistic Voices

4 – Marx and Marxism

Part II

The Revival of Socialism: The Cloth Cap comes to Westminster

5 – The Revival of Socialism

6 – The Ideas of British Socialism

7 – The Lives of the Socialists

Part III

The First World War: A Solvent of the Old Social Order—New Socialist Horizons—Labour in Office

8 – The War and New Opportunity

9 – Socialism: Theory and Practice

10 – The General Strike

11 – The Russian Influence

Part IV

After the Second World War: Labour’s Triumph

12 – The Labour Governments of Attlee and Wilson

13 – Nationalisation—Socialism Fulfilled?

Part V

Re-appraisal of Socialism

14 – Socialism in Britain and the World

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