My Life's Battles - Softcover

Thorne, Will

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1910448095 ISBN 13: 9781910448090

Verlag: Lawrence & Wishart Ltd, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

Will Thorne’s autobiography begins with his working life as a six-year-old child labourer. He describes how his politics were then shaped by his adventures with the tramping navvies, and forged among the roaring furnaces of the Beckton Gasworks in East London. As a semi-skilled industrial labourer, he founded the Gasworkers’ Union, campaigned on behalf of the unemployed and fought for the Eight Hour Day. Eleanor Marx helped him learn to read and write. He eventually became the General Secretary of the General and Municipal Workers’ union, and was an East London MP for forty years.

Along the way, Thorne was an active participant in the early struggles of British socialism and the labour movement. In particular he was a key figure in the development of New Unionism at the end of the nineteenth century.

Published in association with the GMB

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William James Thorne CBE (8 October 1857 - 2 January 1946), known as Will Thorne, was a British trade unionist, activist and one of the first Labour Members of Parliament

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Lawrence & Wishart Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1910448095
• ISBN 13: 9781910448090
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 264
• Herausgeber: Callow John
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