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Author:

Tully, John A. (John Andrew)

Title:

Silvertown : the lost story of a strike that shook London and helped launch the modern labor movement / John Tully.

Publisher:

Monthly Review Press,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

267 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

Rubber industry and trade--London--London--History.
Strikes--London--London--History.
Labor movement--London--London--History.
Labor unions--London--London--History.
Socialism--London.--London.

Notes:

Includes index. Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

ISBN:

1583674349 (cloth : alk. paper)
9781583674345 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)844308933

LCCN:

2013045938

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)