"Starting in the mid-19th Century, public officials, reformers, journalists, and other elites often referred to “the labor question” or “the labor problem”. The labor question was rooted in the system of wage labor that spread throughout much of Europe and its colonies and produced...

1. Introduction, by A. Briggs.--2. Keir Hardie's conversion to socialism, by F. Reid.--3. The Marxism of the Social Democratic Federation, by H. Collins.--4. The Leeds Corporation strike in 1913, by J. E. Williams.--5. The triple industrial alliance, 1913-1922, by P. S. Bagwell.--6. Ramsay...