Senior and up-and-coming scholars present the myriad elements that influenced the early development and political identity of the Labour Party, from the party's connections with powerful unions to the impact of socialism, religion, and other political and social movements on the new party.
Senior and up-and-coming scholars present the myriad elements that influenced the early development and political identity of the Labour Party, from the party's connections with powerful unions to the impact of socialism, religion, and other political and social movements on the new party.
Matthew Worley is Reader in History at the University of Reading.
Inhaltsangabe
Contents: Introduction Matthew Worley; John Robert Clynes and the making of Labour socialism 1890-1918 Robert Taylor; Lines of division: railway unions and Labour 1900-39 Gerald Crompton; Deadweight or bedrock? The mineworkers and Labour Andrew Taylor; The European context: aspects of British Labour and continental socialism before 1920 Chris Wrigley; Myth history and the Independent Labour Party Gidon Cohen; Labour and the intellectuals David Stack; The distinctiveness of British socialism? Religion and the rise of Labour c.1900-39 Peter Catterall; Labour's lost soul? Recovering the Labour church Jacqueline Turner; Women and Labour politics June Hannam; The fruits on the tree: Labour's constituency parties between the wars Matthew Worley; 'A union of forces marching in the same direction'? The relationship between the Co-operative and Labour parties 1918-39 Nicole Robertson; Counter-Toryism: Labour's response to anti-socialist propaganda 1918-39 Laura Beers; Index.
Contents: Introduction Matthew Worley; John Robert Clynes and the making of Labour socialism 1890-1918 Robert Taylor; Lines of division: railway unions and Labour 1900-39 Gerald Crompton; Deadweight or bedrock? The mineworkers and Labour Andrew Taylor; The European context: aspects of British Labour and continental socialism before 1920 Chris Wrigley; Myth history and the Independent Labour Party Gidon Cohen; Labour and the intellectuals David Stack; The distinctiveness of British socialism? Religion and the rise of Labour c.1900-39 Peter Catterall; Labour's lost soul? Recovering the Labour church Jacqueline Turner; Women and Labour politics June Hannam; The fruits on the tree: Labour's constituency parties between the wars Matthew Worley; 'A union of forces marching in the same direction'? The relationship between the Co-operative and Labour parties 1918-39 Nicole Robertson; Counter-Toryism: Labour's response to anti-socialist propaganda 1918-39 Laura Beers; Index.
Es gelten unsere Allgemeinen Geschäftsbedingungen: www.buecher.de/agb
Impressum
www.buecher.de ist ein Shop der buecher.de GmbH & Co. KG Bürgermeister-Wegele-Str. 12, 86167 Augsburg Amtsgericht Augsburg HRA 13309
