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United We Stand.(Book Review)
History Today, July, 2004 by Wrigley, Chris
United We Stand Alistair J. Reid Allen Lane, xvii + 471 pp. 25 [pounds sterling] ISBN 0 713 99758 3
A LISTAIR REID HAS WRITTEN a fresh and well-informed one-volume history of British trade unionism, drawing on a very large range of secondary sources. It is a large task to survey 250 years of trade unionism and he has come up with sensible solutions to the major problems of writing a successor to Henry Pelling's standard work first published in 1963.
One problem of writing such a history is for the account to encompass the wide range of industries and services and even ...
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