Part 1 Before the First World War: the Welsh radical; Lloyd George, labour and social reform; trade and industrial relations. Part 2 The introduction of the war-time system of industrial relations: Lloyd George organizes for victory; Lloyd George's "Charter for Labour" - the treasury conference; the munitions of war act; the South Wales miners' strike, July 1915. Part 3 Munitions and manpower, 1915-16: Lloyd George and the trade union leaders in 1915; enforcing dilution on the Clyde; conscription and manpower shortage, 1915-16. Part 4 War-time Prime Minister: mounting discontent in the labour movement; the May engineering strikes; the Stockholm conference; the manpower crisis, 1917-18.