CHAPTER TWO “REBELLION IN DERBYSHIRE” 1. Luddism in Derbyshire 2. The Knitters’ Union after Luddism 3. The Pentrich Provocation of 1817 4. Notes and references Luddism in Derbyshire: The trend to the Luddism of the […]
CHAPTER THREE UNIONS DURING & AFTER THE COMBINATION LAWS 1. The Law, Society and the Unions 2. The Textile Industry i) Child Labour ii) Adult Labour and the Strike Movement of 1824 3. Early Trades […]
THE ‘SPRING TIDE’ OF TRADES UNIONISM Countdown to the Reform Act of 1832, the GNCTU and the Derby Turnout of 1833-4 1 “Blackguard villains of that now radical town” The Whigs dominated Derby politics throughout […]
Chapter 5: “Peaceably, If We Can – Forcibly, If We Must”: trades unions, the working class and Chartism in Derbyshire in the struggle for economic and political liberty 1 The Birth of the Charter (1839) […]
The Golden Age of Empire – Derbyshire Trades Unionism 1848-1890 1 SUPER-PROFITS MEAN SUPER-WAGES A new generation of professional trades unionists 2 “DOING AWAY WITH PUBLIC-HOUSE CLUB HOUSES” The demise of the tramping system (1850-1913) […]
CHAPTER EIGHT CLASS WAR OR IMPERIALIST WAR? THE DERBYSHIRE LABOUR MOVEMENT AND THE POLITICS OF 1914-1918 Illustration: graffiti made by conscientious objectors imprisoned in Long Eaton 1 The Unions at the outset of […]
CHAPTER NINE: REFORM OR REVOLUTION? CLASS POLITICS 1918-25 1 The 1918 general election 2 The revolutionary period 1919-21 3 Battles on the economic front – from the war to the early twenties […]
CHAPTER TWELVE A PEOPLE’S WAR – A PEOPLE’S PEACE? The Derbyshire Labour Movement: 1939-1945 For some, the summer of 1939 was a complex contradiction of international turmoil and domestic idyll. The TGWU District […]
CHAPTER SEVEN “THE WORKERS’ MOVEMENT TAKES ITS OWN COURSE” 1) Out with the old – in with the new a) Social Conditions – 1890 to 19 b) The growth of industrial militancy 1911-1 914 2) i) […]
CHAPTER 13 THE MODERN ERA 1945-70 I The overall political and economic situation 2 The Labour Government’s economic policy 1947-50 3 The Cold War and the labour movement in Derbyshire 4 Political […]
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