Silvertown the lost story of a strike that shook London and helped launch the modern labor movement
Acknowledgements -- Foreword / by John Callow -- Introductory comment / by John Marriott -- Author's preface -- Prologue: Wednesday 11 September 1889 -- Introduction to a forgotten struggle -- Samuel Silver's palace of industry -- Great sacrifice, great barbarism -- A time of hope -- "...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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New York, NY
Monthly Review Press
c 2014
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Acknowledgements -- Foreword / by John Callow -- Introductory comment / by John Marriott -- Author's preface -- Prologue: Wednesday 11 September 1889 -- Introduction to a forgotten struggle -- Samuel Silver's palace of industry -- Great sacrifice, great barbarism -- A time of hope -- "They want my life's blood" -- The strike gains momentum -- The workers disunited : skilled vs. unskilled at Silvertown -- "There is no justice, mercy or compassion in the plutocracy" -- November: hunger and cold -- The great strike collapses -- Epilogue -- Abbreviations used in the text and notes -- Glossary of terms -- Bibliography -- Notes -- Index |
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| Beschreibung: | 267 S. |
| ISBN: | 1583674349 1-58367-434-9 9781583674345 978-1-58367-434-5 |