Title: Dare to be a Daniel!
First published: 1992
Description: McCartney, a catering worker from age 10, gives a vivid description of the conditions in the kitchens of London’s West End restaurants, the rise of a revolutionary syndicalist union in 1910, the ways in which it won every strike it undertook (!), and its eventual demise in 1914 with World War I. An important page of anarchist and labour history.
Subjects: Employees, Labor unions, Restaurants
Places: England) West End (London, Great Britain, West End (London, England)
People: Wilf McCartney (1877-1949)
Time periods: 1910-1914
LC classification: HD8039.R39 .M33