The Many Not The Few - An Illustrated History Of Britain Shaped By The People

With a mix of serious research and family jokes old union rep, Joe, and his granddaughter, Arushi, go into the complicated history, the ideological battles, the class conflict, a consideration of what unions are for, and what the future of unions may be. Starting way back with the 14th-century Peasants'' Revolt, taking in the Levellers and the Luddites, the expansion of the unions in the 19th century, the height of their power in the ''70s, and the great conflicts and decline of the ''80s.