Contemporary Thought on Nineteenth Century Socialism

Professor Peter Gurney is based at the Department of History, University of Essex, UK.

Volume 2: Socialism and Co-operation in Britain, 1850-1918 Part 1. Redefining socialism 1. J. M. Ludlow, Labour and the Poor, Frasers Magazine, January 1850, pp. 13-18 2. E. V. Neale, Report of the 2nd Co-operative Conference held at Manchester1853 (London: E. Lumley, 1853), pp. 3-7 3. G. J. Holyoake, Life and last days of Robert Owen, of New Lanark (London: Holyoake & Co., 1859), pp. 17-24 4. Frederic Harrison, Industrial Co-operation, Fortnightly Review, January 1866, pp. 479-488, 491-493, 497-499. 5. William Pare, The Land! The Land!, Co-operative News, 5 October 1872, pp. 505-506. 6. George Dawson, Co-operative Villages Co-operation and Communism, Co-operative News, 12 February 1876; 19 February 1876, pp. 81-93. 7. W. H. C., Modern English Communism, Co-operative News, 25 August 1877, p. 448 8. Henry Travis, Advanced Co-operation, the Socialism of England, English Socialism (Manchester: Abel Heywood, 1879), pp. 1-7. Part 2. Political economy 9. John Holmes, The Economic Advantages of Co-operation Substantiated. A letter addressed to the Rev. Norman Macleod, D.D., proving the truth of the large profits from co-operative economy, as stated at the Glasgow meeting of the Association for the Promotion of Social Science (Leeds: David Green, 1860), pp. 12-18, 21-23, 25-26, 29-30 10. John Parker, Land, Free Trade, and Reciprocity, Co-operator, 4 December 1869, pp. 836-837. 11. G. J. Holyoake, The Logic of Co-operation (Manchester: Co-op Printing Society, 1873), pp. 6-11. 12. Ben Jones, Suggestions for carrying out the proposals for the education of co-operators, Co-operative News, 4 November 1882, pp. 743-744. 13. Alfred Marshall, Inaugural address delivered at the twenty-first annual Cooperative Congress ... 1889 (Manchester: Central Co-operative Board, 1889), pp. 3-5, 7-13, 28-30. 14. Hodgson Pratt, The Marriage of Labour and Capital (London: The Labour Association, 1896), pp. 1-3, 6-8. 15. Debate on trusts, The 35th Annual Co-operative Congress, 1903 (Manchester: Co-op Union, 1903), pp. 345-347. Part 3. Class, democracy and the state 16. Ernest Jones and Lloyd Jones, Discussion at Halifax, Notes to the People, Vol 2, 1852, pp. 793-806, 823-829. 17. Co-operation v. Socialism: Being a Report of a Debate between Mr H. H. Champion and Mr Ben Jones (Manchester: Central Co-op Board, 1887), pp. 6-23. 18. Harry Quelch, Trade Unionism, Co-operation, and Social-Democracy (London: Twentieth Century Press, 1892), pp. 10-16. 19. W. T. Carter, Co-operation is Reasonable Socialism (Manchester: Co-op Union, 1894), pp. 1-8 20. Beatrice Webb, The Co-operative Movement in Great Britain (London: Swan Sonnenschein, 1895), pp. 224-241. 21. Tom Mann, Trade Unionism and Co-operation, in Edward Carpenter (ed), Forecasts of the Coming Century (Manchester: Labour Press, 1897), pp. 31-36, 40. 22. Philip Snowden, Co-operative News, 29 April 1905, p. 493 23. Percy Redfern, The Conflict of Capitalism and Democracy, CW S Annual (Manchester: CWS, 1910), pp. 191-192, 196-198, 201-218. 24. John Maclean, Justice, 10 May 1913, p. 7. Part 4 Utopianism and the religion of co-operation 25. J. T. W. Mitchells presidential address, The 24th Annual Co-operative Congress, 1892 (Manchester: Co-op Union, 1892), pp. 6-8. 26. Ben Jones, Co-operative Production (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1894), pp. 730-732, 809-815 27. Ramsden Balmforth, Co-operation as a democratic force: being a sermon preached before the Delegates at the Co-operative Congress, Huddersfield on June 9th, 1895, in Fitzwilliam Street Unitarian Church (London: The Labour Association, 1895), pp. 1-7. 28. Catherine Webb, The "Community Idea", Millgate Monthly, November 1908, pp. 87-91. 29. Percy Redfern, Co-operation for All (Manchester: Co-op Union, 1914), pp. 115-124. Part 5 Gender and consumer organising 30. Vice Presidents Address, Miss Greenwood on womens p