Labour and Socialist Movements in Europe before 1914

Dick Geary Professor of History,University of Nottingham

• Introduction, D. Geary; the British Labour Movement before 1914, G. Phillips; socialism, syndicalism and French labour, R. Magraw; socialism and the German Labour Movement before 1914, D. Geary; labour and socialism in Tsarist Russia, C. Read; socialism and the working classes in Italy before 1914, J.A. Davis; the Labour Movement in Spain before 1914, P. Heywood.

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