This book seeks to renew and expand the field of British labour studies, setting out new avenues for research so as to widen the audience and academic interest in the field, in a context which makes the revisiting of past struggles and dilemmas more pressing than ever.

Emmanuelle Avril is Professor of Contemporary British Politics and Society at the Sorbonne Nouvelle University, Paris
Yann 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 Béliard
Part I: Labour's first century: disputed solidarities
1 The Grand National Consolidated Trades' Union, 1833-1834. Class and conflict in the early British labour movement - Ophélie Siméon
2 The Knights of Labor and the British trade unions, 1880-1900 - Steven Parfitt
3 The struggle for control of the Durham Miners' Association, 1890s-1915 - Lewis H. Mates
4Contested coordinator. The Hull Trades Council, 1872-1914 - Yann Béliard
5 Domestic servants and the labour movement, 1870s-1914: a 'race apart'? - Anna Clark
Part II: Convergences, divergences and realignments on the left
6 'The people's main defence against monopoly'? The Co-op, the Labour Party, and Resale Price Maintenance, 1918-1964 - David Stewart
7 The British Left's attitude towards the Battle of Athens, December 1944 - February 1945: commonalities and divisions - Anastasia Chartomatsidi
8 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 Randall
12 'What dire effects from civil discord flow': Party management and legitimacy breakdown in the Labour Party - Eric Shaw
13 The conflicting loyalties of the Scottish Labour Party - Fiona Simpkins
14 The 'movementisation' of the Labour Party and the future of labour organising - Emmanuelle Avril
Concluding remarks - Emmanuelle Avril & Yann Béliard
Index