2 At the crossroads
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Chris Wrigley
Abstract
Wrigley provides a vital sweeping overview of the path the British Labour Party took during the war. Utilising comparative data highlighting the labour movement across Europe, Wrigley shows how the trade union movement played a key role in the growth of Labour Party in a much needed transnational context. Here we see Labour moving from the status of a client of the Liberals in the summer of 1914 to one where it could meaningfully compete to form a government of its own in under a decade.
Abstract
Wrigley provides a vital sweeping overview of the path the British Labour Party took during the war. Utilising comparative data highlighting the labour movement across Europe, Wrigley shows how the trade union movement played a key role in the growth of Labour Party in a much needed transnational context. Here we see Labour moving from the status of a client of the Liberals in the summer of 1914 to one where it could meaningfully compete to form a government of its own in under a decade.
Chapters in this book
- Front matter i
- Contents v
- List of figures and tables vii
- Notes on contributors viii
- List of abbreviations xii
- Introduction 1
- 1 Peace, but not at any price 17
- 2 At the crossroads 35
- 3 ‘One of the most revolutionary proposals that has ever been put before the House’ 56
- 4 Labour and socialism during the First World War in Bristol and Northampton 73
- 5 A stronghold of liberalism? The north-east Lancashire cotton weaving districts and the First World War 91
- 6 Living through war, waging peace 108
- 7 ‘Industrial unionism for women’ 126
- 8 The unsung heroines of radical wartime activism 145
- 9 Charlie Chaplin’s war 166
- 10 Irish Labour and the ‘Co-operative Commonwealth’ in the era of the First World War 182
- 11 Russia’s war and revolutions as seen by Morgan Philips Price and Arthur Henderson 201
- 12 The Stanford connection 220
- 13 The problem of war aims and the Treaty of Versailles 240
- Index 257
Chapters in this book
- Front matter i
- Contents v
- List of figures and tables vii
- Notes on contributors viii
- List of abbreviations xii
- Introduction 1
- 1 Peace, but not at any price 17
- 2 At the crossroads 35
- 3 ‘One of the most revolutionary proposals that has ever been put before the House’ 56
- 4 Labour and socialism during the First World War in Bristol and Northampton 73
- 5 A stronghold of liberalism? The north-east Lancashire cotton weaving districts and the First World War 91
- 6 Living through war, waging peace 108
- 7 ‘Industrial unionism for women’ 126
- 8 The unsung heroines of radical wartime activism 145
- 9 Charlie Chaplin’s war 166
- 10 Irish Labour and the ‘Co-operative Commonwealth’ in the era of the First World War 182
- 11 Russia’s war and revolutions as seen by Morgan Philips Price and Arthur Henderson 201
- 12 The Stanford connection 220
- 13 The problem of war aims and the Treaty of Versailles 240
- Index 257
