The History of Trade Unionism (Revised Edition, Extended to 1920)

xviii, 784pp plus listings of authors' other publications. Blue cloth boards, soiled, a little rubbed at corners and spine ends, spine sunned). Internally neat clean, bright and tight barring some tanning to endpapers. An addition revised by the Webb's of their seminal work on the history of trade unionism originally published in the 1890s. This edition contains additional material by the Webbs, taking the history up to 1920, and with an additional preface preceding that of 1894. A classic and indispensable work on the history and development of the trades union movement.from the mid 16th century onwards.