Ebook: Silvertown: the lost story of a strike that shook London and helped launch the modern labor movement

Acknowledgements -- Foreword / by John Callow -- Introductory comment / by John Marriott -- Author's preface -- Prologue: Wednesday 11 September 1889 -- Introduction to a forgotten struggle -- Samuel Silver's palace of industry -- Great sacrifice, great barbarism -- A time of hope -- "They want my life's blood" -- The strike gains momentum -- The workers disunited : skilled vs. unskilled at Silvertown -- "There is no justice, mercy or compassion in the plutocracy" -- November: hunger and cold -- The great strike collapses -- Epilogue -- Abbreviations used in the text and notes -- Glossary of terms -- Bibliography -- Notes -- Index.