Unemployed Struggles 1919-1936

by Wal Hannington, Will Paynter (Introduction), Tom Mann (Introduction)

Genres: History, Politics

328 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1936

About the author

aka Walter Hannington

Wal was a British Trade Unionist, interested in history and of course the Union movement.

Reviews

[Annie B]

Fantastic overview of the organised mass working class movement amongst the unemployed workers in this period. However, at the end of it all Hannington seems to be coming to a conclusion that, despite the constant betrayals documented in his own writing, the Labour Party and trade union leadership in Britain will yet become an ally of a working class movement. These opportunist forces succeeded in diverting and limiting the unemployed struggles at every turn. A mass working class movement in Britain would only succeed by breaking with these forces - and Hannington's accounts prove this.

[Louise88]

superb. Mr hannington was proper frontline. if he was with us now he'd still be ahead of his time. see also ragged trousered philanthropists.