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Silvertown : the lost story of a strike that shook London and helped launch the modern labor movement / John Tully.
Lippincott Library HD9161.G73 L667 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tully, John A. (John Andrew), author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rubber industry and trade--England--London--History.
- Rubber industry and trade.
- Strikes and lockouts--England--London--History.
- Strikes and lockouts.
- Socialism.
- History.
- Labor unions.
- Labor movement.
- England--London.
- Labor movement--England--London--History.
- Labor unions--England--London--History.
- Socialism--England--London--History.
- Physical Description:
- 267 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Monthly Review Press, [2014]
- Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword / by John Callow
- Introductory comment / by John Marriott
- 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
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Notes
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781583674345
- 1583674349
- OCLC:
- 844308933
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