By Mary Davis
'This booklet is perfect for its objective. I in basic terms want it were to be had within the a long time while i used to be instructing alternate union courses.' Jim Fryth, Labour heritage Review
'At final a readable and obtainable basic historical past of the labour flow ... hugely recommended.' Manchester TUC Newsletter
--A revised, up to date and multiplied variation of this vintage feminist account of British labour history--
Critical and iconoclastic, Comrade or Brother? lines the background of the British Labour circulate from its beginnings on the onset of industrialisation via its improvement inside of a capitalist society, as much as the top of the twentieth-century. Written via a number one activist within the labour move, the e-book redresses the stability in a lot labour heritage writing. It examines where of girls and the impression of racism and sexism in addition to delivering a severe research of the rival ideologies which performed a task within the asymmetric improvement of the labour movement.
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