Detailed below is a recommended reading list:-

The Making of the English Working Class
by E. P. Thompson
Penguin Books
ISBN 0-14-013603-7

 

 

My Life's Battles
by Will Thorne
Lawrence & Wishart
ISBN 0 85315 706 5

 

 

 

 

The Constructive Militant
(a biography of Will Thorne)
by E.A. and G. H. Radice
George Allen & Unwin
ISBN 0 04 923065 4

 

 

 

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
(a novel and social comment on working life)
by Robert Tressell
Zed Books
ISBN 1 84277 385 2

 

 

 

The History of British Trade Unionism
by Henry Pelling
Penguin Books
ISBN 0-14-013640-1

 

 

The Air of Freedom: the Birth of New Unionism
by Yvonne Kapp
Lawrence & Wishart
ISBN 0 85315 710 3

 

 

WEBSITES

History of Trade Unions

www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/TU.htm

www.unionhistory.info/timeline/timeline.php

www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_union

Eleanor Max

www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wmarx.htm

www.socialistparty.org.uk/socialistwomen/sw12.htm

Ben Tillett - Dock Workers Dispute

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/REtillett.htm