If you would like to order any of the following, please email us to confirm
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'Working Class Movement Library'.
Postcards
Reproductions of trade union emblems and labour movement artworks
:
Brass Founders' Emblem £0.20 colour
Carters' Association Emblem £0.20 colour
Pattern Makers' Emblem £0.20 colour
National Council of Labour Colleges Cartoon £0.20 black & white
The Blind Illiterate - Russian Revolutionary Educational Poster £0.20
colour
Landlordism - Cartoon by Victorian Radical Cartoonist, Cynicus £0.20
colour
The eviction of poor Irish families in Leather Lane, Holborn £0.20 black
& white
Marching for the Cause. A book of 30 photographs showing demonstrations and
parades from 1920-1989. £1.95 black & white
Souvenirs
Chartist Movement Commemorative Card (1989) £0.20
Socialist Commandments. Produced by the Socialist Sunday Schools Union . A4
poster - 50p. Postcard - 20p
Peterloo prints: "Dreadful Scenes" and "A View of St. Peter's Place" - A4 size
- 10p
Posters
- £2.00 each unless otherwise stated
Trade Union Emblems
(Decorative membership certificates sold by unions.)
- United Machine Workers Association - 80 x 65cm
- Steam Engine Makers Society - 58 x 41cm
- United Operative Plumbers Association - 67 x 46cm
- Electrical Trades Union - 44 x 37cm
Other Posters
- Woman riveter - WW2 photograph - 52 x 42cm
- Isometrical View in Water Colours of Manchester and Salford - 32 x 46cm
Reproduction of 1859 print and information pack - £10.00
- Rise Like Lions - poster of 2005 installation at Old TGWU building on Salford Crescent - a photomontage created by Liam Curtin - 84 x60cm
Publications
And The New Paths Are Begun!
by Jim Arnison and Edmund and Ruth Frow.
Volume 2 of the history of Manchester and Salford Trades Council. 1945-1990.
£5.00, 169pp, illus.
The Battle of Bexley Square
by Edmund and Ruth Frow.
An account of the unemployed struggles in Salford in 1931 when the police
charged the demonstrators outside the Town Hall, compiled from a range of
accounts, including Walter Greenwood, Ewan MacColl and Edmund Frow.
£1.50, 25pp, illus, 09252341018.
Bob and Sarah Lovell
by Edmund and Ruth Frow.
Crusaders for a better society. Includes an account of the Labour Defence in
the thirties and the organisation of Fords' Motor Company at Dagenham. 50p,
50pp, illus.
Chartism in Salford
by WCML staff.
Written by the Library staff for the 150th anniversary of the Mass Meetings
on Kersal Moor in 1838 and 1839. £1.00, 30pp, illus, ISBN 0901952168
Citizen Guillotine
by Edmund and Ruth Frow.
This pamphlet reproduces some of the broadsheets issued in the 1790's. In the
light of French experiences, they satirically extol the virtues of the
guillotine as a more humane way of decapitating a monarch. Broadsheets were the
news programmes of the time and reaction to political events was often
recorded. With no law of libel, no holds were barred. £3.00, 23pp, illus,
ISBN 0952341050.
Communist Cartoons
Cartoons from the "Communist" 1921-22 by 'Espoir' & others. Introduction by
Eric Hobsbawm. - £4.00, 52pp, illus.
Communist Party Pit and Factory Papers, 1927 & 1934
by Edmund and Ruth Frow.
According to the Communist Party, the period covering the late 1920's and
early 1930's was characterised as essentially negative. The formation of pit
and factory groups, with their papers (of which nearly 200 are recorded here),
indicates a more positive scenario. £3.00, 29pp, illus, ISBN 0952341069.
Democracy in the Engineering Union
by E&R Frow and Ernie Roberts M.P. - 25p, 16pp.
Engineering Struggles
by Edmund and Ruth Frow.
Written from a shop steward's point of view and based on contemporary
documents and papers with eye witness accounts of events. Pbk £3.50 Hbk
£4.00 496pp, illus, ISBN 0906932254
Essays in Insurrection
by Edmund and Ruth Frow.
There have been few occasions when the citizens of Manchester have taken to
the streets with firearms. But they did in 1790 and 1848 about the situation in
Ireland. The United Irishmen and the United Englishmen in the 1790's and the
Chartists in 1848, came near to armed insurrection. £3.00, 49pp, illus,
ISBN 0952341085.
Essays on the Irish in Manchester
by Edmund and Ruth Frow.
The book starts with a general introduction about the Irish contribution to
British Labour history, followed by chapters on John Doherty and the Chartists.
The final chapter is about the Manchester Martyrs and the Fenians, linking them
with Engels and Lizzie Burns. £1.50, 46pp, illus, ISBN 1870605403.
Frederick Engels in Manchester and "The Condition of the Working Class in
England" in 1844
by Edmund and Ruth Frow.
Engels spent 12 years of his life in Manchester and used it to study the
conditions of working class life. He lived in a number of houses in the city.
Marx visited him on several occasions. £1.50 13pp illus.
The General Strike In Salford in 1911
by Edmund and Ruth Frow.
Salford Workers (and women) played a significant part in the "Great Unrest".
Seamen, dockers, carters, miners, engineering labourers and workers in the
sweated trades were involved in rolling strikes which won important concessions
from the employers. £1.00, 31pp, illus, ISBN 1870605209
The Great Dock Strike, 1889
reprint by H H Champion.
A firsthand account of Harry Champion, Treasurer of the Dock-workers' Strike
Committee. £1.00, 30pp, illus, 01870605055.
The Half-time System in Education
by Edmund and Ruth Frow.
The story of the children who worked half-time in the factory and went to
school during the other half of the day. Also the attitude of the Labour
movement towards child labour and the campaign inaugurated by the National
Union of Teachers to end the system. £1.50, 99pp, ISBN 901598097.
Karl Marx in Manchester
by Edmund and Ruth Frow.
Karl Marx visited Manchester almost every year between 1851 and 1870 in order
to collaborate more fully with Frederick Engels. £1.00, 48pp, illus, ISBN
0906932955
Manchester and Salford Chartists
by Eddie and Ruth Frow. History of Chartism in Manchester and Salford
including the Mass meeting on Kersal Moor in 1838. £4.00, 125pp, illus,
ISBN 0952341042.
The New Moral World
by Edmund and Ruth Frow.
Robert Owen and Owenism in Manchester and Salford. Illustrated with
contemporary prints including The Hall of Science. £1.00, 33pp, illus.
Poems
by Bill Dutson.
Bill Dutson was an activist in the National Unemployed Workers' Movement. His
poetry reflects his deep understanding of working class life and struggle.
£1.00, 90pp, illus.
Politics of Hope
by Edmund and Ruth Frow.
Reprints of early Socialist pamphlets by Bernard Shaw, William Morris, H. G.
Wells, Annie Besant and others with a full introduction and explanatory notes.
£3.99, 234pp, illus, ISBN 1853050636.
Radical and Red Poets and Poetry
. Compiled and annotated by Edmund and Ruth Frow with preface by Frank Allaun.
Poems by famous and unknown authors on themes, e.g. peace and socialism, with
40 full page illustrations.£4.50, 148pp, illus, ISBN 095234100X.
Radical Salford
by Ruth and Edmund Frow. £2.00, 34pp, illus, ISBN 090751149X
Scenes of British Wealth.
A facsimile reprint of an 1825 pamphlet by Reverend I. Taylor. 15p, 8 pages,
illus.
Shop Stewards
by Edmund and Ruth Frow.
A shortened and well illustrated version of Engineering Struggles. 30 pence,
32pp, illus.
Shrewsbury Three
by Jim Arnison.
Jim was a journalist for the Morning Star. This is the story of 3 building
workers who were wrongly imprisoned and their fight for justice. - £3.00,
84pp, ISBN 853153027.
Thomas Spence
by Mary Ashraf.
A scholarly bibliographical account of Thomas Spence and his works. He was an
active Radical of the 1790's with progressive and revolutionary ideas.
£1.99, 211pp, illus, ISBN 0859831728.
To Make That Future Now!
by Edmund and Ruth Frow.
A history of the Manchester and Salford Trades Council. Volume 1 1864-1945.
Hbk £1.50 Pbk £1.00 169pp, illus, ISBN 0859720250.
See below for Volume 2, 'And the New Paths Are Begun!'.
William Morris in Manchester and Salford
by Edmund and Ruth Frow.
A book about William Morris - founder of the Arts and Crafts movement and
lecturer to the Ancoats Brotherhood - and his connections with Manchester and
Salford. £2.00,28pp, illus.
North West Labour History Group Bulletins
Published annually. Some back copies available. £5.95, illus, ISBN
1362-6302.
Working Class Movement Library Bulletin Numbers 1 - 14
. 1990 - 2004.
Contents list
Articles indicating the Library holdings. Well illustrated. Published by The
Friends of the Library annually. £1.50, illus.
