Overview

In almost 1500 biographical entries, this comprehensive, authoritative reference work covers the European labour movement from its origins to the present. The entries are selected from all the countries of Europe, from Ireland in the west to Russia in the east and from Finland in the north to Greece in the south. Written by specialists in the labor history of the subject countries, the entries are arranged alphabetically, irrespective of the country of origin, while a state-by-state breakdown provides an additional source of information. Labour is defined broadly to include trade unions, political parties, cooperatives, and anarcho-syndicalist groups, but not so broadly as to include state-controlled bodies lacking democratic procedures.

Full Product Details

9780313264566

Table of Contents

Reviews

"?Specialists in European labor and social history should be delighted with this collective biography of labor leaders, living and deceased...The relatively brief but well-written sketches will greatly facilitate comparative labor and social history.?-Choice ""Specialists in European labor and social history should be delighted with this collective biography of labor leaders, living and deceased...The relatively brief but well-written sketches will greatly facilitate comparative labor and social history.""-Choice"

?Specialists in European labor and social history should be delighted with this collective biography of labor leaders, living and deceased...The relatively brief but well-written sketches will greatly facilitate comparative labor and social history.?-Choice

?Specialists in European labor and social history should be delighted with this collective biography of labor leaders, living and deceased...The relatively brief but well-written sketches will greatly facilitate comparative labor and social history.?-Choice Specialists in European labor and social history should be delighted with this collective biography of labor leaders, living and deceased...The relatively brief but well-written sketches will greatly facilitate comparative labor and social history. -Choice

Author Information

A. THOMAS LANE is Senior Lecturer in History and Head of the Department of European Studies at Bradford University. He is Deputy Chair of its Baltic Research Unit. He has written books and articles on labor and immigration history, including Solidarity or Survival? American Labor and European Immigrants, 1830-1924 (Greenwood, 1987). He has also published on the history and contemporary affairs of the Baltic states and Poland, and is joint editor of Baltic Briefing, a journal for business and government.

Tab Content 6

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

Countries Available