Acknowledgements

IRSF Family Tree

Preface and Introduction

1 Beginnings

2 Reformations and transformations

3 Sowing the seeds of trades unionism

4 Punching holes in the darkness: the story of the ATC

5 Youth™s battalion: war, sacrifice and renewal

6 Mony a mickle. Associated unions in the revenue

7 Promises and pie- crust: the inter- war period

8 The Second World War

9 Building the new Jerusalem: 1945- 1951

10 The rise of the affluent society: ‚ You have never had it so good™

11 All you need is love: the swinging sixties

12 The 1970s: a bag of holes Πfrom Selsdon Man to Iron Lady

13 The confrontation years: 1979 to 1981

14 Ted™s trial; tort, telicity and tailing

15 Decline and fall: UK unions on the rack

16 The challenge of change: the IRSF faces up to the 1980s

17 New lamps for old: the IRSF 1990- 1995

18 Recapitulation and summation: 104 years of tax unions

Afterword Lord Tony Christopher and Lord Clive Brooke

Appendices

Index