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Some Recent Labour History

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Essays in Labour History 1918–1939. Edited by BriggsAsa and SavilleJohn. London: Croom Helm, 1977. Pp. 292. £7.95.
The Origins of British Bolshevism. By ChallinorRaymond. London: Croom Helm, 1977. Pp. 291. £8.50.
The trade union rank and file. Trades Councils in Britain, 1900–40. By ClintonAlan. Manchester: University Press, 1977. Pp. 262. £11.50.

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

Stuart Macintyre
Stuart Macintyre
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St John's College, Cambridge
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The Historical Journal , Volume 22 , Issue 3 , September 1979, pp. 721 - 730
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3 Cf. the article on ‘The membership of the Social Democratic Federation, 1885–1902’, by Watmough, P. A. in the Bulletin of the Society for the Study of Labour History, XXXIV (Spring 1977)Google Scholar, which uses branch returns to suggest a dues-paying membership of 2, 358. A more balanced account of the S.D.F. is provided by Collins, Henry, ‘The Marxism of the Social Democratic Federation’ in Briggs, Asa and Saville, John (eds.), Essays in labour history 1886–1923 (London, 1971), pp. 47–69CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

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