Labour United and Divided from the 1830s to the Present

Emmanuelle Avril is Professor of Contemporary British Politics and Society at the Sorbonne Nouvelle University, ParisYann Béliard is Senior Lecturer in British Political and Social History at Sorbonne Nouvelle University, Paris

• Introduction: The British labour movement between unity and division - Emmanuelle Avril and Yann BéliardPart I: Labour’s first century: disputed solidarities1 The Grand National Consolidated Trades’ Union, 1833-1834. Class and conflict in the early British labour movement – Ophélie Siméon2 The Knights of Labor and the British trade unions, 1880-1900 – Steven Parfitt3 The struggle for control of the Durham Miners’ Association, 1890s-1915 – Lewis H. Mates4Contested coordinator. The Hull Trades Council, 1872-1914 – Yann Béliard5 Domestic servants and the labour movement, 1870s-1914: a ‘race apart’? – Anna ClarkPart II: Convergences, divergences and realignments on the left6 ‘The people’s main defence against monopoly’? The Co-op, the Labour Party, and Resale Price Maintenance, 1918-1964 – David Stewart7 The British Left’s attitude towards the Battle of Athens, December 1944 – February 1945: commonalities and divisions – Anastasia Chartomatsidi8 The decline of revolutionary pragmatism and the splintering of British Communism in the 1980s – Jeremy Tranmer 9 Re-framing the debate on breakaway trade unions in an era of neoliberalism – David Evans.10 English teachers’ unions since 2010. ‘A teachers’ lobby divided against itself’? – Anne Beauvallet Part III: The Labour Party today: fragmentation or mutation?11 Dissent in the Parliamentary Labour Party, 1945-2015 – Nick Randall12 ‘What dire effects from civil discord flow’: Party management and legitimacy breakdown in the Labour Party – Eric Shaw13 The conflicting loyalties of the Scottish Labour Party – Fiona Simpkins14 The ‘movementisation’ of the Labour Party and the future of labour organising – Emmanuelle AvrilConcluding remarks – Emmanuelle Avril & Yann BéliardIndex

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