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COME TOGETHER

TRADES COUNCILS 1920-50

Jethro Bor & Michael Bor

ISBN 978-1-915603-68-5

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Publication: WAS JAN NOW MARCH 24

ISBN: 9781915603685
Price: £13.99
Binding: Paperback

Format: 216 x 138 mm
Extent: 300 pp
Illustrated: 2 x 8 pp plates
Thema: NHTB Social History

Author location: Hampshire

• A purposeful, ambitious book critiquing the
variegated histories and changing roles of
trades councils in the UK from 1920 to 1950.
• Opening with a selection of quotes from
various thinkers that orientate readers around
questions of political history and radical
politics, the book acts as a celebration of the
activities and politics of trade council
members and their contribution to British
society.
Jethro Bor has an MA in Music and has collated and edited Some
of Millions (2020), a collection of true-life stories exploring mental • Written by a father–son author partnership,
following Michael Bor's desire to understand
health. the political history of his stepfather, Stan.

Michael Bor has an MA in History from Bangor University and an Think global, act local! Trades councils are the place
MA in Holocaust Studies from Royal Holloway, London. He was workers and unemployed trade unionists, in local and
BBFC Principal Examiner from 1993 to 2000. He is the author of Sir national forums, can come together to pass resolutions and
Moses plan actions; in workplaces and on the streets; to change
Montefiore (1984) and The Socialist League in the 1930s (2005). laws, change minds, show solidarity, lead and inspire;
encourage demonstrations, occupations and industrial
actions; to provide confidence and political tools to working
people. Union leaders have tended to constrict these
assemblies while radicals have often wanted to further
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Tradeorders@troubador.co.uk Come Together explores trades councils in Britain from
0116 279 2299 1920 to 1950 – their role in the General Strike of 1926,
unemployment responses in the 1930s, the impact of World
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without notice. 13/10/23 was Sept 23 ,Jan 24 now March 24 War II, their interactions with British communists – with
lessons for today’s activists.