"Waking from forty years sleep": Isle of Wight study group on British working-class history (3)

For explanation and details of the whole course, see here.

Looking at the revival of socialist ideas, the development of working-class political representation and, from the late 1880s, the huge struggles which created the "new unionism" organising precarious and unskilled workers.

Reading: The Common People, chapters 34, 35, 37, 38.