Labour and working-class lives
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Labour and working-class lives

Essays to celebrate the lie and work of Chris Wrigley

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Labour and working-class lives

Essays to celebrate the lie and work of Chris Wrigley

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British labour history has been one of the dominating areas of historical research in the last sixty years and this book, written in honour of Professor Chris Wrigley, offers a collection of essays written by leading British labour historians of that subject including Ken Brown, Malcolm Chase and Matthew Worley. It focuses upon trade unionism, the co-operative movement, the rise and fall of the Labour Party, and working-class lives, comparing British labour movements with those in Germany and examining the social and political labour activities of the Lansburys. There is, indeed, some important work connected with the cultural developments of the British labour movement, most obviously in the essay written by Matthew Worley on communism and Punk Rock.

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Year
2017
ISBN
9781526100115
Edition
1

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Editors and contributors
  7. Chris Wrigley: a tribute: Professor the Lord Hennessy of Nympsfield, FBA
  8. Chris Wrigley: a personal reflection: Professor Margaret Walsh
  9. Acknowledgements
  10. List of abbreviations
  11. Introduction: Keith Laybourn and John Shepherd
  12. 1 George Howell, the Webbs and the political culture of early labour history: Malcolm Chase
  13. 2 The appointment of Herbert Gladstone as Liberal Chief Whip in 1899: Kenneth D. Brown
  14. 3 A question of neutrality? The politics of co-operation in north-east England, 1881–1926: Joan Allen
  15. 4 Transforming the unemployed: trade union benefits and the advent of state policy: Noel Whiteside
  16. 5 The trade union contribution to the British Labour Party: Andrew Thorpe
  17. 6 The disaffiliation crisis of 1932: the Labour Party, the Independent Labour Party (ILP) and the opinion of ILP members: Keith Laybourn
  18. 7 Voices in the wilderness? The Progressive League and the quest for sexual reform in British politics, 1932–59: Janet Shepherd
  19. 8 Working-class culture in Britain and Germany, 1870–1914: a comparison: Dick Geary
  20. 9 Women at work: activism, feminism and the rise of the female office worker during the First World War and its immediate aftermath: Nicole Robertson
  21. 10 ‘We never trained our children to be socialists’: the next Lansbury generation and Labour politics, 1881–1951: John Shepherd
  22. 11 Comrades in bondage trousers: how the Communist Party of Great Britain discovered punk rock: Matthew Worley
  23. 12 Must Labour lose? Lessons from post-war history: Kevin Jefferys
  24. A select list of the publications of Chris Wrigley
  25. Index