Labour and working-class lives
Essays to celebrate the life and work of Chris Wrigley
by Keith Laybourn, John Shepherd
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This book is an absorbing collection of essays in honour of Professor Chris Wrigley, one of the leading figures in the study of British labour history. It focuses mainly upon Professor Wrigley's interests in Liberal and Labour politics, industrial relations, trade unions and industrial systems. Its originality lies in the fact that many leading historians have re-assessed relevant areas of their own related research. These contributors include prominent professors such as Ken Brown, Malcolm Chase, Kevin Jefferys, Keith Laybourn, John Shepherd, Andrew Thorpe, Noel Whiteside, Matthew Worley alongside other leading academics such as Joan Allen, Nicole Robertson and Janet Shepherd. The title Labour and working-class lives is broad ranging but includes a variety of topics, from the study of George Howell and his views on the emergence of British trade unionism (Chase), through to the disaffiliation of the ILP from the Labour Party in 1932 (Laybourn), the contentious link between the trade unions and the Labour Party (Thorpe) the generation of Lansbury's who followed George Lansbury (John Shepherd), the Progressive League ( Jan Shepherd), and British communism and Punk Rock (Worley). And, given the recent general election defeat of the British Labour Party, Kevin Jefferys asks 'Must Labour Lose? in an essay of more than usual significance for our time. The essays are written in an accessible manner which will appeal particularly to undergraduates, postgraduates and academics specialising in history politics and sociology. Yet it should also be of interest to the informed general reader. It should become an established text in most university libraries throughout the world.
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Keith Laybourn is Professor of History and the Diamond Jubilee Professor of the University of Huddersfield. John Shepherd is Visiting Professor of Modern History at the University of Huddersfield
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- Publisher Manchester University Press
- Publication Date April 2017
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9781784995270 / 1784995274
- Publication Country or regionUnited Kingdom
- FormatHardback
- Primary Price 75 GBP
- Pages288
- ReadershipCollege/Tertiary Education
- Publish StatusPublished
- Dimensions234 x 156 mm
- Illustration1 table
- Biblio NotesReflective comments by Professor Peter Hennessy Foreword: a personal reflection from Professor Margaret Walsh 1. Introduction - Keith Laybourn and John Shepherd 2. George Howell, the Webbs and the political culture of early labour history - Malcolm Chase 3. The appointment of Herbert Gladstone as chief Liberal whip in 1899 - Ken Brown 4. A question of neutrality? The politics of cooperation in North-east England, 1881-1926 - Joan Allen 5. Transforming the unemployed: trade union benefits and the advent of state policy - Noel Whiteside 6. The trade union contribution to the British Labour Party - Andrew Thorpe 7. The disaffiliation crisis of 1932: the Labour Party, the Independent Labour Party and the opinion of ILP members - Keith Laybourn 8. Voices in the wilderness? The Progressive League and the quest for sexual reform in British politics 1932-1959 - Janet Shepherd 9. Working-class culture in Britain and Germany 1870-1914: a comparison - Dick Geary 10. Women at work: activism, feminism and the rise of the female office worker during the First World War and its immediate aftermath - Nicole Robertson 11. 'We never trained our children to be socialists': the next Lansbury generation and Labour politics 1881-1955 - John Shepherd 12. Comrades in bondage trousers: how the Communist Party of Great Britain discovered Punk Rock - Matthew Worley 13. Must Labour lose? Lessons from post-war history - Kevin Jefferys A select list of the publications of Chris Wrigley Index
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