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a much larger co-operative work has achieved its first volume
only.^7as A history- of the T.U.C. has the virtues (if any) and
deficiencies of a semi-official account.^739 Hobsbawm has looked
at the efforts of the lowest layers to organize themselves,^740
while of the elite unions only the railway-men's has received
reasonably scholarly treatment.^741 An odd aspect of trade
union history, of which little is known, was the unions* share
in promoting emigration - in the end to the detriment of their
o\\n funds.^742 The upright ineffectuals of the I.L.P., bearers of
the true faith, have found their historian.^743 The influence of
the Fabians is uncritically hymned by Cole, herself involved,
while the beginnings of a more doubtful attitude, of which
more will be heard, appear in the book by McBriar which, in
consequence, met with some execration.^744 Some individuals
receive their due, or more than their due. It took a Japanese
scholar to cope with H. M. Hyndman, a socialist John Bull of
essentially tory character;^743 Masterman attends to a more
typical figure, the sentimental Christian J. M. Ludlow.^746
Foreign prophets, too, make their appearance: Collins and
Abramsky look into the relations between England and the
^73S H. A. Clegg, A. Fox, A. F. Thompson, A History of British Trade
Unionism since j&Sp, vol. i:  1889-1910. O: Clarendon:  1964.
Pp. ad, 514. Rev: EHR So, Syaf.; EcHR* 20, 359^.
^73V Benjamin C. Roberts, Tfa Trades Union Congress^ 1868-1921. L:
Allen & Unwin: 1958. Pp. 408.
^748 Eric J. Hobsbawm, 'General labour unions, 1882 - 1914', EcHR*
i (1948 -9), 123-42.
^741	P. S. Gupta, 'Railway trade unionism in Britain, c. 1880 - 1900',
EcHR* 19 (1966), 124-53.
^742	Charlotte Erickson, *The encouragement of emigration by British
trade unions, 1850- iqotf, Population Studies $ (1949 -50), 248-73.
^743	Robert E. Dowse, Left in the Centre: the independent labour party,
1873-1940. L: Longmans: 1966. Pp. xi, 231.
^744	Margaret Cole, The Story of Fabian Socialism. L: Helnemann: 1961.
Pp. xv, 361. Rev: EHR 78, 816. - A. M. McBriar, Fabian Socialism
in British Politics, 1884 -1318. CUP: 1962. Pp. x, 388. Rev: EHR
80, aoof.
^743 Ghushichi Tsuzuki, H.M. Hyndman and British Socialism. L: OUP:
1961. Pp. viii, 304. Rev: EHR 77, 809.
^7W Neville C. Masterman, John Malcolm Ludlow, the budlder of Christian
Socialism. CUP: 1963. Pp. vii, 299.