Introduction - approaching post-war trade unionism, John McIlroy, Alan Campbell, Nina Fishman. Part 1 Overviews 1945-79 - sociology, class and male manual work cultures, Mike Savage; women in the labour market and in the unions, Chris Wrigley; complex encounters - trade unions, immigration and racism, Ken Lunn. Part 2 Survey: the high tide of trade unionism - mapping industrial politics, 1964-79, John McIlroy and Alan Campbell. Part 3 Case studies, 1964-79: the Labour Party and the trade unions, Andrew Thorpe; the Conservative Party and the trade unions, Andrew Taylor; "what are we here for?" - George Woodcock and trade union reform, Robert Taylor; notes on the Communist Party and industrial politics, John McIlroy; "always outnumbered, always outgunned" - the Trotskyists and the trade unions, John McIlroy; how workers on the Clyde gained the capacity for class struggle - the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders' work-in, 1971-72, John Foster and Charles Woolfson; "glorious summer", 1972 - the high tide of rank and file militancy, Dave Lyddon; afterword - what went wrong?, Richard Hyman.
