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History and the Labour Movement in Britain, by Sidney Pollard;
pp. vi + 313. Aldershot and Brookfield, VT: Ashgate, 1999,
[pounds sterling]57.50, $105.95. Thomas Burt, Miners' MF 1837 -
1922: The Great Conciliator, by Lowell J. Satre; pp. vii + 200.
London and New York: Leicester University Press, 1999, [pounds
sterling]50.00, $75.00. As is generally known, British labor
history has changed dramatically since it emerged as a separate
field of inquiry about a century ago. Usually regarded as the
founding text, Sidney and Beatrice Webb's History of Trade
Unionism (1894) focused on the evolution of established
institutions and had a thinly disguised political goal, to
justify their belief in the "inevitability of gradualness." G.
D. H. Cole and Raymond Postgate's The Common People, 1746-1938
(1938) added a social and economic dimension to the study of
institutional and political change. They