An atlas of industrial protest in Britain Book

	Preface
	Introduction
Sect. A	1750-1850
1	Strikes and popular protest in Gloucestershire, 1756-66	7
2	The London sailors' strike of 1768	12
3	Protests over cotton machinery in Lancashire, 1768-79	18
4	Protests against machinery in the west of England woollen industry, 1776-1802	23
5	The Luddite disturbances, 1811-12	32
6	The disturbances of 1826 in the manufacturing districts of the north of England	47
7	The General Strike of 1842	51
Sect. B	1850-1900
8	The records of industrial protest	65
9	Lock-outs and national bargaining in the engineering industry, 1852 and 1897-8	72
10	The nine-hours movement of 1871	82
11	The revolt of the field, 1872-4	90
12	The strike at Bryant and May's match factory, East London, July 1888	99
13	Organising the unskilled: the 1889 dock strike	105
14	The early May days: 1890, 1891 and 1892	112
15	The coal lock-out of 1893	116
Sect. C	1900-39
16	The geography of strikes, 1900-39	126
17	The General Strike of 1926	137
18	The miners' lock-out of 1926	145
19	Little Moscows and radical localities	151
20	The national hunger marches, 1921-36	158
21	The Jarrow Crusade of 1936	166
22	The Harworth dispute of 1936-7	170
Sect. D	1940-90
23	The geography of strikes, 1940-90	181
24	Coal disputes, 1940-45	191
25	Unofficial dock strikes and 1945-51 Labour governments	195
26	Strikes in the motor car manufacturing industry	202
27	The winter of discontent: the lorry drivers' strike, January 1979	210
28	The 1984-5 miners' strike	217