Labour united and divided from the 1830s to the present / edited by Emmanuelle Avril and Yann Béliard.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Béliard, Yann, 1971- Editor.

Avril, Emmanuelle, Sonstige.

Series:

Manchester scholarship online.

Manchester scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labour Party (Great Britain)--History.

Labour Party (Great Britain).

Great Britain--Politics and government.

Great Britain.

Genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (312 pages) : illustrations, charts; digital file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2018.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

data file

Summary:

This work seeks to renew and expand the field of British labour studies, setting out new avenues for research so as to widen the audience and academic interest in the field, in a context which makes the revisiting of past struggles and dilemmas more pressing than ever.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of figures and tables

Notes on contributors

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Introduction: the British labour movement between unity and division

Part I: Labour’s first century: disputed solidarities

1 The Grand National Consolidated Trades’ Union, 1833–1834: class and conflict in the early British labour movement

2 The Knights of Labor and the British trade unions, 1880–1900

3 The struggle for control of the Durham Miners’ Association, 1890s–1915

4 Contested coordinator: the Hull Trades Council, 1872–1914

5 Domestic servants and the labour movement, 1870s–1914

Part II: Convergences, divergences and realignments on the left

6 ‘The people’s main defence against monopoly’? The Co-op, the Labour Party and Resale Price Maintenance, 1918–1964

7 The British left’s attitude towards the Battle of Athens, December 1944–February 1945: commonalities and divisions

8 The decline of revolutionary pragmatism and the splintering of British communism in the 1980s

9 Re-framing the debate on breakaway trade unions in an era of neoliberalism

10 English teachers’ unions since 2010: ‘a teachers’ lobby divided against itself’?

Part III: The Labour Party today: fragmentation or mutation?

11 Dissent in the Parliamentary Labour Party, 1945–2015

12 ‘What dire effects from civil discord flow’: party management and legitimacy breakdown in the Labour Party

13 The conflicting loyalties of the Scottish Labour Party

14 The ‘movementisation’ of the Labour Party and the future of labour organising

Concluding remarks

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print record.

ISBN:

9781526138798

1526138794

9781526126337

1526126338

OCLC:

1050764462