British Labour Leaders

Author : Charles Clarke
Publisher : Biteback Publishing
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781849549677

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British Labour Leaders by Charles Clarke Pdf

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 : Charles Clarke
Publisher : Biteback Publishing
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781849549707

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British Conservative Leaders by Charles Clarke Pdf

As the party that has won wars, reversed recessions and held prime ministerial power more times than any other, the Conservatives have played an undoubtedly crucial role in the shaping of contemporary British society. And yet, the leaders who have stood at its helm - from Sir Robert Peel to David Cameron, via Benjamin Disraeli, Winston Churchill and Margaret Thatcher - 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 Conservative leadership since the party's nineteenth-century factional breakaway 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 Conservative Leaders is the essential guide to understanding British political history and governance through the prism of those who created it.

Author : Andrew Denham,Peter Dorey,Andrew S. Roe-Crines
Publisher : New Perspectives on the Right
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1526134861

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Choosing Party Leaders by Andrew Denham,Peter Dorey,Andrew S. Roe-Crines Pdf

This rigorous, seminal study of leadership selection in British Politics focuses on the Conservatives and Labour Party to explore the skills needed to be an effective leader over the course of the 20th and into the 21st Century.

Author : Duncan Brack
Publisher : Biteback Publishing
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781849549714

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British Liberal Leaders by Duncan Brack Pdf

As the governing party of peace and reform, and then as the third party striving to keep the flame of freedom alive, the Liberal Party, the SDP and the Liberal Democrats have played an undoubtedly crucial role in the shaping of contemporary British society. And yet, the leaders who have stood at its helm - from Earl Grey to Nick Clegg, via William Gladstone, David Lloyd George and Paddy Ashdown - have steered the Liberal 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 Liberal leadership since the party's origins in the struggle for the Great Reform Act 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 political landscape, offering a compelling analytical framework by which they may be judged, detailed personal biographies from some of the leading academics and experts on Liberal history, and exclusive interviews with former leaders themselves. An indispensable contribution to the study of party leadership, British Liberal Leaders is the essential guide to understanding British political history and governance through the prism of those who created it.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:310589478

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The British Labour Party by Anonim Pdf

Author : Patricia O'Flynn Strauss
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1941
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UOM:39015062349926

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Bevin and Co by Patricia O'Flynn Strauss Pdf

Author : Jonathan Schneer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429823787

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Ben Tillett by Jonathan Schneer Pdf

First published in 1982. To study Tillett’s career is to study the modern British labour movement in its formative stages. His rhetoric and activities cast light upon some of the most important periods in labour history. In this book, not only the career of this remarkable and mercurial man is analysed, but our knowledge of the wider scene in which he played so major a role is increased. This title will be of interest to scholars and students of political history.

Author : Andrew S. Crines,Kevin Hickson
Publisher : Biteback Publishing
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781785900587

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Harold Wilson by Andrew S. Crines,Kevin Hickson Pdf

This year marks the centenary of Harold Wilson's birth, the fiftieth anniversary of his most impressive general election victory and forty years since his dramatic resignation as Prime Minister. He was one of the longest-serving premiers of the twentieth century, having won a staggering four general elections, yet, despite this monumental record, his place in Labour's history remains somewhat ambiguous. By the end of his two periods in power, both the left and right of the party were highly critical of Wilson - the former regarding him as a traitor to socialism, the latter as contributing directly to British decline. With contributions from leading experts in the fields of political study, and from Wilson's own contemporaries, this remarkable new study offers a timely and wide-ranging reappraisal of one of the giants of twentieth-century politics, examining the context within which he operated, his approach to leadership and responses to changing social and economic norms, the successes and failure of his policies, and how he was viewed by peers from across the political spectrum. Finally, it examines the overall impact of Harold Wilson on the development of British politics.

Author : Zygmunt Bauman
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Labor
ISBN : 0719005027

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Between Class and Elite by Zygmunt Bauman Pdf

Historical study of the labour movement in the UK from 1750 to 1955, with particular reference to the sociological aspects of the role of trade union leadership as an Elite group within the working class - covers the evolution of the labour political party, political leadership, etc. References and statistical tables.

Author : Laura Beers
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0674050029

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Your Britain by Laura Beers Pdf

New Labour's electoral success of the late 20th century was due in no small part to its grasp of media communication. This book reminds us that the importance of the mass media to Labour's political fortunes is by no means a modern phenomenon.

Author : T. Heppell,K. Theakston
Publisher : Springer
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137314215

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How Labour Governments Fall by T. Heppell,K. Theakston Pdf

What similarities exist between the reasons for Labour losing office in 2010 and those behind why previous Labour governments were defeated? This edited volume provides a detailed historical appraisal which considers the importance of themes such as economic performance; political leadership and the condition of the Conservatives in opposition.

Author : Kenneth O. Morgan
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UVA:X002139690

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Labour People by Kenneth O. Morgan Pdf

The British Labour movement has always venerated the collective ideal: solidarity, mass endeavour, the common good. Yet paradoxically its progress or decline has always been bound up with its major personalities and the concept of leadership.Drawing on extensive original research, this book examines the careers of such leaders as Hardie, MacDonald, Attlee, Wilson, and Kinnock, and those of a wide range of officials, intellectuals, trades unionists, prophets, planners, and pioneers, including Bevan, Benn, and Scargill, to provide aunique view of Labour's stormy history.

Author : Tom Buchanan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1991-02-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0521393337

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The Spanish Civil War and the British Labour Movement by Tom Buchanan Pdf

This book draws on a mass of documentary material to provide a major reinterpretation of British labour's response to the Spanish Civil War. It challenges the view that the labour leadership ' betrayed' the Spanish Republic, and that this polarised the movement along `left' versus 'right' lines. Instead, it argues that the overriding concern of the major leaders was to defend labour's institutional interests against the political destabilisation caused by the conflict, rather than to defend Spanish democracy. Although the main advocates of this position were trade union leaders associated with the labour right such as Walter Citrine and Ernest Bevin, the book argues that their dominance reflected the centrality of the trade unions to labour movement decision-making rather than the abuse of union power to achieve political goals.

Author : Timothy Heppell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780857718501

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Choosing the Labour Leader by Timothy Heppell Pdf

The change in the method of selecting the Labour Party leader, from an elite parliamentary ballot to a mass participatory Electoral College, which occurred in 1981 was ideologically motivated. However, the strategy of the Left to enhance the accountability of the incumbent party leader to the wider Labour movement, and the Left's chances of securing an ideological succession in the party leadership failed. Drawing together debates on the method of party leadership selection and the ideological positioning of leadership candidates, this book examines each leadership election since 1963 as a means of charting the decline of the left within the Labour Party. Given the bypassing of the Electoral College to appoint Gordon Brown in 2007, and the debates surrounding his authority and legitimacy as Labour Party leader thereafter, this book offers a comprehensive and timely examination of Labour Party leadership elections from Wilson to Brown which will be invaluable for scholars of British Politics and the history of the Labour Party.

Author : Martin Pugh
Publisher : Random House
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781407051550

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Speak for Britain! by Martin Pugh Pdf

Written at a critical juncture in the history of the Labour Party, Speak for Britain! is a thought-provoking and highly original interpretation of the party's evolution, from its trade union origins to its status as a national governing party. It charts Labour's rise to power by re-examining the impact of the First World War, the general strike of 1926, Labour's breakthrough at the 1945 general election, the influence of post-war affluence and consumerism on the fortunes and character of the party, and its revival after the defeats of the Thatcher era. Controversially, Pugh argues that Labour never entirely succeeded in becoming 'the party of the working class'; many of its influential recruits - from Oswald Mosley to Hugh Gaitskell to Tony Blair - were from middle and upper-class Conservative backgrounds and rather than converting the working class to socialism, Labour adapted itself to local and regional political cultures.