This is the second volume on the history of the Transport and General Worker's Union, covering the period 1932 to 1945. In 1931, when the economic slump created mass unepleyment, the TGWU was a large rambling union. This is the stroy of working-class power excercises through trade unions.Power gained through struggle, organozation, and relevance,power used thriugh negociations, strikes, and political impact, and power defended against attacks by Conservatives in goverment, by so-called friends inside the labour movement, and by those sections of opnion formers(the media, academics, church leaders) seeking to sow doubt and division.