Labours Lost Leader

Author : Paul Tyler
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857714171
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Labour's Lost Leader written by Paul Tyler and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2007-06-29 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life story of Will Crooks has a Dickensian resonance. As a working class child, born into abject poverty, he experienced the rigours of Poplar Workhouse and Poor Law school. Nearly forty years later Crooks became Chairman of the Poplar Board of Guardians, the very board that had given him shelter during his challenging early years. Crooks was a member of the Coopers' Union for fifty-five years, and a leading pioneer of the trade union and Labour movement for over thirty. This significant and sometimes controversial figure has been overlooked by modern historians. Here Paul Tyler presents a pioneering political biography of a significant Labour figure at both a local and national level and an important reinterpretation of the early trade union and labour movement from the 1880s to the 1920s.

Author : David Clark
Publisher : Quartet Books (UK)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Victor Grayson written by David Clark and published by Quartet Books (UK). This book was released on 1985 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles Clarke
Publisher : Biteback Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1849549672
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book British Labour Leaders written by Charles Clarke and published by Biteback Publishing. This book was released on 2015-08-08 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the party that championed trade union rights, the creation of the NHS and the establishment of a national minimum wage, Labour has played an undoubtedly crucial role in the shaping of contemporary British society. And yet, the leaders who have stood at its helm - from Keir Hardie to Ed Miliband, via Ramsay MacDonald, Clement Attlee and Tony Blair - have steered the party vessel with enormously varying degrees of success. With the widening of the franchise, revolutionary changes to social values and the growing ubiquity of the media, the requirements, techniques and goals of Labour leadership since the party's turn-of-the twentieth- century inception have been forced to evolve almost beyond recognition - and not all its leaders have managed to keep up. This comprehensive and enlightening book considers the attributes and achievements of each leader in the context of their respective time and diplomatic landscape, offering a compelling analytical framework by which they may be judged, detailed personal biographies from some of the country's foremost political critics, and exclusive interviews with former leaders themselves. An indispensable contribution to the study of party leadership, British Labour Leaders is the essential guide to understanding British political history and governance through the prism of those who created it.

Author : Jacqueline Dickenson
Publisher : Academic Monographs
ISBN 13 : 0522853099
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Renegades and Rats written by Jacqueline Dickenson and published by Academic Monographs. This book was released on 2006 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accusations of betrayal played a significant role in the shaping and maintenance of solidarity in socialist and other modern radical political organisations in Australia and Britain. This fascinating study of trust and betrayal focuses on case studies of 6 'rats' or renegades: H.H. Champion; William Trenwith; John Burns; Albert Victor Grayson; Adela Pankhurst Walsh; and Ada Holman. Renegades and Rats will appeal to scholars of history and sociology alike, and to anyone intersted in the subject of trust: what it is, and how it is lost.

Author : T. Heppell
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230369006
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leaders of the Opposition written by T. Heppell and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-03-27 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Timothy Heppell brings together a renowned group of contributors to consider the role of the Leader of the Opposition in British Politics. The book argues that the neglect of opposition studies needs to be addressed, especially given the increasing importance attached to the performance the Leader of the Opposition in the British political system.

Author : Martin Wright
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 1783169184
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wales and Socialism written by Martin Wright and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2016-11-20 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the spread of socialism in late-Victorian and Edwardian Wales, paying particular attention to the relationship between socialism and Welsh national identity. Welsh opponents of socialism often claimed it to be a foreign import, whereas socialists often asserted that the Welsh were socialist by nature. This study – the first full-scale study of the influence of early socialism across all of Wales – demonstrates that the reality was more complex than either assertion would admit. Rather than focusing on the structural growth of socialism, the topic is discussed in terms of the spread of ideas and the development of a political culture. The study culminates in a discussion of attempts, in the period before the Great War, to create a specifically Welsh socialist tradition. In approaching the topic from this angle, this study restores a part of the lost diversity of British socialism that is of striking contemporary relevance.

Author : Leo Panitch
Publisher : Verso
ISBN 13 : 9781859843383
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The End of Parliamentary Socialism written by Leo Panitch and published by Verso. This book was released on 2001-05-17 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues against the assertion that there is no alternative to neo-liberalism.

Author : David Powell
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780826470744
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tony Benn New Edition written by David Powell and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2003-08-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Powell's fascinating biography traces Tony Benn's extraordinary fifty-year political career from the day he first entered the House of Commons in 1950. Benn has always been a controversial figure. Nonetheless many of the policies he championed, including some for which he was widely belittled, have since entered the statute books. Indeed, if history is a chronicle of ironies, there can have been little more ironic than when, following Benn's valedictory speech in the Commons in 2001, a Tory backbencher commended him to fellow MPs as Britain's ‘greatest living Parliamentarian.'>

Author : Paul Tyler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780755621101
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Labour's Lost Leader written by Paul Tyler and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part One: Local Activist and Labour Pioneer 1852-1907 -- 1. Will Crooks of Poplar -- 2. Guardian of the Poor -- 3. Unemployment and the Poor Law -- 4. Woolwich and independent Labour representation -- Part Two: Labour Pioneer and Member of Parliament 1903-1921 -- 5 Member for Woolwich -- 6 Role in Parliament and the General Elections of 1910 -- 7 Returns to the Parliamentary Fray -- 8 War and Peace -- References and Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Author : Alfred F. Havighurst
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521522472
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern England, 1901-1984 written by Alfred F. Havighurst and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-07-08 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most comprehensive bibliography of printed books, articles, and standard texts on twentieth-century England.