One hundred years ago the Labour Representation Committee was formed - this is usually taken as the founding meeting of the Labour Party. However a month before, in January 1900, the Scottish Workers' Parliamentary Election Committee was established to achieve the same things in Scotland - the election of working-class representatives to the House of Commons who would act independently of the existing political parties. This reflected the way many of the moves towards independent Labour were pioneered in Scotland. Many of the key figures in the early Labour Party were Scots - Hardie,...
One hundred years ago the Labour Representation Committee was formed - this is usually taken as the founding meeting of the Labour Party. However a mo...
This new history of British trade unionism offers the most concise and up-to-date account of 300 years of trade union development, from the earliest documented attempts at collective action by working people in the eighteenth century through to the very different world of New Unionism' and New Labour'.
This new history of British trade unionism offers the most concise and up-to-date account of 300 years of trade union development, from the earliest d...
