Chapter 1 Writing Trade-Union History; Chapter 2 Trends in Trade-Union Development, 1825–75; Chapter 3 The Origins and Establishment of the Trades Union Congress; Chapter 4 Trends in Modern Trade Unionism; Chapter 5 Early Trade Unionism in the Printing Industry; Chapter 6 The London Society of Master Letter-Founders, 1793–1820; Chapter 7 The Struggle for a Free Press; Chapter 8 The Ideology of Early Co-Operation in Lancashire and Cheshire; Chapter 9 Robert Blincoe and the Early Factory System;
Professor of Economic History University of Manchester