Jay Winter

The Working Class in Modern British History

Essays in Honour of Henry Pelling
Herausgeber: Winter, Jay

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The thirteen essays in this book reflect the dual character of writing about the history of the British working class.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 534g
• ISBN-13: 9780521299541
• ISBN-10: 0521299543
• Artikelnr.: 24850955

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. The working class in British politics: 1. The social democratic
theory of the class struggle Peter Clarke; 2. Keir Hardie and the Labour
Leader, 1893-1903 Fred Reid; 3. Winston Churchill and the working class,
1900-14 Paul Addison; 4. Expectations born to death: local Labour party
expansion in the 1920s Christopher Howard; 5. Post-war reconstruction in
Wales, 1918 and 1945 Kenneth O. Morgan; 6. Imperialism and the Labour
government of 1945-51 Partha Sarathi Gupta; Part II. The working class in
British society: 7. Work and hobbies in Britain, 1880-1950 Ross McKibbin;
8. Credit and thrift and the British working class, 1870-1939 Paul Johnson;
9. Intelligent artisans and aristocrats of labour: the essays of Thomas
Wright Alastair Reid; 10. Anglo-Marxism and working-class education
Chushichi Tsuzuki; 11. Did British workers want the welfare state? G. D. H.
Cole's Survey of 1942 Jose Harris; 12. Images of the working class since
1930 Arthur Marwick; 13. Unemployment, nutrition and infant mortality in
Britain, 1920-50 Jay Winter.