Single or Return - the official history of the Transport Salaried Staffs' Association

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Foreword: by TSSA General Secretary Richard Rosser
Malcolm Wallace: About the author
Acknowledgements
Notes to the web edition
Chronology
Chapter 1: Birth of the Union; Charles Bassett-Vincent; The Railway Herald; Early Branches; The First President; The First General Secretary; The First Annual Conference.
Chapter 2: Dark Days; Sir Fortescue Flannery MP; John Stopford-Challener, Early Pay Claims; Problems with The Railway Review; The RCA begins to Grow; Affiliation to The TUC.
Chapter 3: The Taff Vale Strike; The RCA and Politics; The Railway Clerk; Labour Party Activists; Death of John Stopford-Challener; A.G. Walkden; Affiliation to The Labour Party; Socialism and Nationalisation.
Chapter 4: The RCA's Administration is Strengthened; Superannuation; The Conciliation Scheme 1907; The Ashton Dispute; Freedom of Speech; The Campaign against Consumption; The 1911 Railway Strike; Victimisation.
Chapter 5: Progress in Ireland; The Irish TUC; Socialist Politics in Ireland; The Irish Labour Party; The 1915 Conference and Elections; Easter 1916; The Irish Office opens.
Chapter 6: The Great Unrest; The Life of a Railway Clerk; The Labour Press; A.G. Walkden - Parliamentary Candidate; End of an Era; Syndicalism; Closure of the Sheffield Branch; The Breakaway Union Fails; Return to the Fold; 1913 Political Ballot - Victory.
Chapter 7: Clouds of War; State Control of the Railways; 1917 - The Russian Revolution; The Cost of War.
Chapter 8: RCA Women and The Railway Industry; Women on the Move; Victimisation Continues; Women's Conferences; Post-War Developments.
Chapter 9: Federation or Amalgamation?; Conflict over Supervisors; The National Federation of Professional Workers; Recognition; Coming of Age; Line Secretaries are Appointed; The RCA and the Co-operative movement.
Chapter 10: The General Election 1918; The 1919 Railway Strike; The Communist Party; Education and the RCA.
Chapter 11: Ireland - Civil War and Elections.
Chapter 12: The Scottish Office is Opened; The Labour Party and Home Rule.
Chapter 13: Railway Amalgamation in Britain; Railway Amalgamation in Ireland; Election Campaigns; The First Labour Government.
Chapter 14: International Links; Continental Politics.
Chapter 15: Black Friday; Red Friday; Prelude to the General Strike; The General Strike; The End of The Strike; The Aftermath of The Strike; The 1926 Annual Conference.
Chapter 16: The Trade Disputes and Trade Unions Act (1927); Opposition to the RCA; Electoral Progress; The Mond-Turner Talks; The Attack on Wages; Pay Cuts in Ireland; The Labour Research Department; Expulsions.
Chapter 17: The Royal Commission on Transport; The General Elections of 1929 and 1931; The London Passenger Transport Act (1933); Industrial Democracy; The Socialist Fellowship revived; Women Members Campaign.
Chapter 18: The RCA and Leisure; Politics and Sport; The British Workers' Sports Association; A Change of Direction.
Chapter 19: General and Local Elections; A New General Secretary; Peace Campaigns 1923-39; The Spanish Civil War.
Chapter 20: World War 2; Politics and The War; The RCA and The ITF; Irish Politics and The CIE; More Campaigns for Recognition; Women and The War; The National Joint Committee of Railway Trade Unions; Salary Advances During The War; Superannuation; The End of The War.
Chapter 21: The 1945 General Election; The New Social Programme; Industrial Democracy.
Chapter 22: The Golden Jubilee; Youth and Education; The Cold War; Wage Control; The Lynskey Tribunal; The 1950 General Election; The RCA Changes its Name; General Elections.
Chapter 23: Conservatism Returns; New TSSA Officers; Equality for Women; General Elections.
Chapter 24: Walkden House; Politics and Peace; Racism; Opposition to Apartheid; The 1959 General Election.
Chapter 25: The Beeching Era; Transport Changes in Ireland.
Chapter 26: Labour returns to Power; The Transport Act (1968); In Place of Strife; The 1970 General Election.
Chapter 27: The Heath Government; The Industrial Relations Act; The Field Organisation; Denationalisation; The Common Market Debate; The End of the Heath Government.
Chapter 28: The Campaign to save the Railway Network; A New General Secretary; Industrial Democracy; Developments in the Republic of Ireland; Northern Ireland.
Chapter 29: The Winter of Discontent; Thatcherism Arrives; Privatisation Begins; Changes in the TSSA.
Chapter 30: The 1983 General Election; The 1984-1985 Miners' Strike.
Chapter 31: More Privatisation; London Transport and Bus Privatisation.
Chapter 32: Political Commitment; Preparing for Railway Privatisation; The Railways Act (1993); BR Privatisation - The Final Phase?; Towards the Centenary.
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