Sixty Years of Trade Unionism, 1868-1928: Souvenir of the Sixtieth Trades Union Congress

London: Trades Union Congress, 1928. First Edition. Octavo. Textured cloth with gilt titles; 84pp; illus. Mild external rubbing and wear; internally clean, tight and unmarked - Very Good or better. Rather lavishly produced and profusely illustrated keepsake of the 60th Trades Union Congress. Includes thirty-six inserted leaves of photographic plates (halftones), including portraits of many seminal figures of British left-wing labor (Lady Dilke, Keir Hardie, Harry Gosling, Tom Mann, Ben Tillett, Sidney & Beatrice Webb, etc); with images of the British General Strike of 1926, the Paris Congress of 1927, etc. Includes a chapter by Sidney Webb ("The Congress and Politics") and J.J. Mallon ("The Congress and Women"); and a profile of Ramsay MacDonald, the first Labour Prime Minister. (Inventory #: 48800)