The Foundations of the British Labour Party

Identities, Cultures and Perspectives, 1900-39
Herausgeber: Worley, Matthew

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. September 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 390g
• ISBN-13: 9781138249486
• ISBN-10: 1138249483
• Artikelnr.: 57050910

Autorenporträt

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.