David Welsh is a retired member of the RMT and currently the convenor of Norfolk for the Nationalisation of Rail and editor of Key Workers United (Norfolk and Waveney). He was a community historian at HISTORYTalk and worked on the ‘Britain at Work’ oral history project and co-ordinated the ‘Second World War Home Front Project’ for the National Pensioners’ Convention and TUC, 2004-06. He is the author of Underground Writing: The London Tube from George Gissing to Virginia Woolf (2010) and the editor of All in a Day’s Work: Working Lives and Trade Unions in Working Lives and Trade Unions in West London 1945- 1995 (2015) and Fortress Britain: Working Lives and Trade Unions in World War II (2005).

An engaged account of the development of European railway workforces that will contribute to work on international trade unionism

• Preface John McDonnell MPIntroduction1. The Geography of Class Power: Capital and Labour on Europe’s Railways2. The Railway International3. The Emergence of the Social Railway and Transport Intermediaries4. Nationalisation and Socialisation5. Militarism and Militarisation/Fascism and Anti-FascismPostscript: The Current SituationBibliographyIndex

David Welsh is a retired member of the RMT and currently the convenor of Norfolk for the Nationalisation of Rail and editor of Key Workers United (Norfolk and Waveney). He was a community historian at HISTORYTalk and worked on the ‘Britain at Work’ oral history project and co-ordinated the ‘Second World War Home Front Project’ for the National Pensioners’ Convention and TUC, 2004-06. He is the author of Underground Writing: The London Tube from George Gissing to Virginia Woolf (2010) and the editor of All in a Day’s Work: Working Lives and Trade Unions in Working Lives and Trade Unions in West London 1945- 1995 (2015) and Fortress Britain: Working Lives and Trade Unions in World War II (2005).

An engaged account of the development of European railway workforces that will contribute to work on international trade unionism

• Preface John McDonnell MPIntroduction1. The Geography of Class Power: Capital and Labour on Europe’s Railways2. The Railway International3. The Emergence of the Social Railway and Transport Intermediaries4. Nationalisation and Socialisation5. Militarism and Militarisation/Fascism and Anti-FascismPostscript: The Current SituationBibliographyIndex