Before the Socialists: Studies in Labour and Politics 1861-1881
London; Toronto: Routledge & Kegan Paul; University of Toronto Press, 1965. First edition. Softcover. Octavo. XII, [2], 369, [1]pp. Original printed wrappers over blue cloth with gold lettering on spine. This work is a captivating study of working-class politics during the two decades which separated the last of the Chartists from the first of the modern Socialists. The principal personalities appear in each chapter, the chronological arrangement being designed so as to disclose the development of character as well as of events. Each study is expected to justify itself in terms of filling a gap or supplying a revision in the received account of the political behavior of workmen in these two comparatively neglected decades. Sporadic creasing along edges of wrappers. Wraps in overall good, binding and interior in very good condition. vg. Item #30993
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