Labour at War

• Abbreviations; Note on terms; List of figures and tables; The context; The 'Choice of 1914': Labour participation in the national efforts during the war; Responding to the war: the French labour movement and wartime problems; Planning the post-war world: the French labour movement and reform 1915-1916; Consolidating reformism: the French labour movement 1917-1918; The road to 'reconstruction': the British labour movement and post-war reform 1914-1918; Labour reformism in wartime: a comparison; The international dimension; The reckoning: l'aprés-guerre and the longer-term legacy; Appendices; Bibliography; Index

`a richly detailed and satisfying work - which is not a page too long ... Dr Horne skilfully manages both to control a vast mass of material and to demonstrate how different circumstances produced a similar response. It is an impressive performance.'John Gooch, The Higher