Trade union lives

Trade union lives provides brief biographies of some significant figures in the history of trade unionism.

Robert Applegarth – Carpenters’ union leader

Will Crooks – Dockers’ leader and Labour MP

John Gast – Shipwrights’ leader and radical

P C Hoffman – Shopworkers’ organiser and Labour MP

Anne Loughlin – First woman president of the TUC

Mary Macarthur – Women’s union leader

Beatrice Webb – Trade union historian