Stella & Rose's Books

Front cover

Contents

• List of tables
• List of plates
• Preface and acknowledgements
• Introduction: The ports of South Wales during the nineteenth century: their development, trade and labour force
• 1 The Waterloo of Labour
• The formation of the Dock, Wharf, Riverside and General Labourers' Union and its development in South Wales, 1889-1890
• The employers' counter-attack, 1891-1892
• 2 Calm and Crescendo
• On the waterfront, 1894-1910
• The recruitment of tinplate workers, 1892-1910
• The Houlder dispute of 1910
• 3 Strikers, Blacklegs and Bullies
• The 1911 dock strikes
• The 1912 strike and its consequences
• The growth of the Dockers' Union in the tinplate and other industries, 1911-1914
• 4 War and its Aftermath
• The development of the Dockers' Union at the ports during the First World War
• Recruitment from industry, 1914-1918
• The development of the Dockers' Union in industry after the War
• Unionism at the ports, 1919-1921
• 5. Conclusion
• Appendices
• Glossary
• Bibliography
• Index