In this biography of Richard Müller (1880-1943), the leading protagonist of the 1918 German Revolution, Ralf Hoffrogge lifts Müller and his council socialist Shop Stewards'' movement out of obscurity, showing how grassroots working class radicalism animated the most powerful working class...

Intro -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL BACKGROUND, 1780- 1850 -- 2 THE IMPACT OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, 1789- 1815 -- 3 POSTWAR RADICALISM, 1815-1836 -- 4 THE AGE OF CHARTISM -- 5 ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL BACKGROUND, 1850- 1918 -- 6 TRADE UNIONS, POLITICS AND THE LABOUR...

The collapse of Britain's powerful labor movement in the last quarter century has been one of the most significant and astonishing stories in recent political history. How were the governments of Margaret Thatcher and her successors able to tame the unions? In analyzing how an entirely new...