This study of British shipbuilding in its heyday brings together original discussions of the organization of production, the relationship between leaders and members of the industry's key trade union, and the involvement of that union in wider labour politics.

Alastair J. Reid is a Fellow of Girton College, Cambridge

List of figures
Acknowledgments
List of abbreviations
Introduction
1. Markets and firms
2. Management and labour
3. Skills and trade unions
4. The impact of machinery: hullbuilders
5. The impact of machinery: outfitters
6. Conclusions to Part I
7. Leadership in the boilermakers' society
8. Robert Knight and industrial democracy
9. John Hill and the the Clyde unrest
10. Conclusions to Part II
11. Liberalism and socialism
12. Robert Knight and the origins of the Labour Party
13. Socialism and liberalism
14. John Hill and an independent Labour Party
15. Conclusions to Part III
Bibliography
Index