Liberalism And The Rise Of Labour 1890 1918

Author : Keith Laybourn,Jack Reynolds
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429803215

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Liberalism and the Rise of Labour 1890-1918 by Keith Laybourn,Jack Reynolds Pdf

First published in 1984. This book is a detailed study of the way in which the growing Labour movement gradually ousted the Liberals in West Yorkshire between 1890 and 1924. It demonstrates the basis of old Liberalism and the strength of local non-conformity, and its powerful links with the textile and engineering industries. It shows how the Liberalism of this district was dominated by small groups of well-to-do leaders involved in these main industries. This study also shows the gradual breakdown of the political consensus established between the Liberal party and the working classes and explains how the increasing opposition to Liberalism was channelled into the socialist movement. In all, the authors present a thorough and extensive study of the political changes in a particularly interesting part of the British Isles.

Author : Keith Laybourn,Jack Reynolds
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1984-01-01
Category : Labor
ISBN : 0312483422

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Liberalism and the Rise of Labour, 1890-1918 by Keith Laybourn,Jack Reynolds Pdf

Author : Keith Laybourn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Working class
ISBN : STANFORD:36105020345000

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The Rise of Labour by Keith Laybourn Pdf

Author : Peter Weiler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781315524245

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The New Liberalism by Peter Weiler Pdf

This title, first published in 1982, explores the new Liberalism - the great change in Liberalism as an ideology and a political practice that characterised the years before the First World War - and examines the idea that the new Liberals successfully overcame the need they saw in the 1890’s to make Liberalism more socially reformist. This title will be of interest to students of social and political history.

Author : Keith Laybourn,Huddersfield Polytechnic
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 13 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:28334229

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The Rise of Labour by Keith Laybourn,Huddersfield Polytechnic Pdf

Author : Samantha Wolstencroft
Publisher : Springer
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319757445

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The Progressive Alliance and the Rise of Labour, 1903-1922 by Samantha Wolstencroft Pdf

This book provides a detailed study of the politics of the Progressive Alliance at the constituency level from its inception in 1903 to collapse during the First World War. It evaluates the character, development and difficulties of progressive co-operation and considers the long-term viability of an electoral alliance between the Liberal and Labour parties. Samantha Wolstencroft provides an exhaustive analysis of political change in two of Britain’s major industrial centres, Manchester and Stoke-on-Trent, during a period that witnessed the decline of the Liberal Party and rise of Labour. She evaluates the difficulties faced by the early Labour Party in its attempt to attain a foothold within the political landscape, examines the impact of the experience of the First World War upon the political parties, and demonstrates the power of issues and the role of candidates in the transformation of electoral politics in Britain in the immediate aftermath of war.

Author : John A. Hargreaves,Keith Laybourn,Richard Toye
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351866125

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Liberal Reform and Industrial Relations: J.H. Whitley (1866-1935), Halifax Radical and Speaker of the House of Commons by John A. Hargreaves,Keith Laybourn,Richard Toye Pdf

J.H. Whitley came from an established business family in Halifax, where he engaged in youth work and municipal politics before becoming MP for Halifax from 1900 to 1928. He was a Liberal Radical who worked with Labour, gave his name to the industrial councils of the First World War, was Speaker of the House of Commons 1921-28 presiding over the debates at the time of the General Strike of 1926. In 1929-31 he toured India as chairman of the Royal Commission on Indian Labour and was chairman of the BBC between 1930 and 1935. He was thus a vitally important political figure who was active at the rise of Labour and the decline of Liberalism, involved in the Liberal reforms of the Edwardian age, and deeply concerned about industrial relations in early twentieth century Britain and beyond. This volume brings together leading academics and provides new information and analysis on the life, work and times of J.H. Whitley, offering a study of his career in British politics and society, focusing particularly on the last decade of the nineteenth century and the first three decades of the twentieth century.

Author : David Dutton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350307001

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A History of the Liberal Party since 1900 by David Dutton Pdf

Once teetering on the brink of oblivion, the British Liberal Party has again re-established itself as a major force in national and local politics. David Dutton's approachable study offers new insights into the waning, near death and ultimate recovery of the Liberal Party from 1900 to the present day. Discussions of politics, philosophy and performance are all skilfully interwoven as Dutton demonstrates how the party has become, once more, a formidable player on the political stage. The second edition of this established text offers: - An entirely new chapter on the coalition government - A chronology of key events - Numerous suggestions for further reading This lively survey of British Liberalism from the era of Campbell-Bannerman to that of Nick Clegg reviews existing literature while offering its own distinctive perspective on one of the most compelling of political dramas.

Author : David Nicholls
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1852851252

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The Lost Prime Minister by David Nicholls Pdf

Sir Charles Dilke's claim to a leading place in the pantheon of Victorian radicalism, with Cobden, Bright and Chamberlain, has been overshadowed by the sensational divorce case in 1886 that ruined his career. Yet his political abilities were great and his career a most remarkable one. He was regarded by many of his contemporaries as a likely successor to Gladstone and a probable future Prime Minister. It can be argued that his political eclipse was a crucial contributing factor to the Liberal Party's failure to provide a viable alternative to the rise of the Labour Party. This is the first new biography of Dilke since Roy Jenkins' Sir Charles Dilke: A Victorian Tragedy, published in 1958. David Nicholls has used substantial new material to provide what is likely to be the definitive work on Dilke, shedding new light on his character, personal life and political career, as well as on the famous divorce scandal. This highly readable book is both an account of a remarkable man and an important contribution to the understanding of Victorian politics.

Author : Matthew Worley
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 0754667316

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The Foundations of the British Labour Party by Matthew Worley Pdf

Senior and up-and-coming scholars present the myriad elements that influenced the early development and political identity of the Labour Party, from the party's connections with powerful unions to the impact of socialism, religion, and other political and social movements on the new party.

Author : Robert C. Self
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317877820

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Evolution of the British Party System by Robert C. Self Pdf

By the end of the nineteenth century, reform and development of the British electoral system had inaugurated a new style of mass politics which fundamentally transformed the face of the British party system. This book traces the evolution of recognisably modern parties from their roots in the 1880s through half a century of dramatic change in organisational structure, electoral competition and constitutional thought. In the House of Commons the Labour Party replaced the Liberals as the radical answer to the Conservative Party. In the country at large the complex web of Victorian social, regional and religious allegiances gave way to a cruder but more dynamic model of modern political loyalties. The transformation at Westminster and in the constituencies is surveyed in relation to changes to the franchise (including the vote for women), class consciousness, political organisation and doctrine. The comprehensive account explains the varying fortunes of the parties in the face of mass democracy, collectivism, the First World War and economic uncertainty. It also provides a critical insight into the debates and conflicts of interpretation which surround this pivotal period in British political history.

Author : J. Shepherd,K. Laybourn
Publisher : Springer
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2006-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230287365

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Britain’s First Labour Government by J. Shepherd,K. Laybourn Pdf

This volume is the first major account for nearly fifty years to critically re-assess Labour's first period in office in terms of domestic, foreign and imperial policy. It draws on a wide range of private papers and official sources and reconstructs the history of this forgotten government in the broader social and political context of the 1920s.

Author : Chris Cook,John Stevenson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317875239

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Longman Handbook to Modern British History 1714 - 2001 by Chris Cook,John Stevenson Pdf

This compact and accessible reference work provides all the essential facts and figures about major aspects of modern British history from the death of Queen Anne to the end of the 1990s. The Longman Handbook of Modern British History has been extended to include a fully-revised bibliography (reflecting the wealth of newly published material in recent years), the new statistics on social and economic history and an expanded glossary of terms. The political chronologies have been revised to include the electoral defeat of John Major and the record of New Labour in office. Designed for the student and general reader, this highly-successful handbook provides a wealth of varied data within the confines of a single volume.

Author : Jo Vellacott
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 551 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 9780773548022

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From Liberal to Labour with Women's Suffrage by Jo Vellacott Pdf

Catherine Marshall was a vital figure in the women's suffrage movement in Britain before the First World War. Using her remarkable political skills on behalf of the major non-militant organization, the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS), she built close connections with major suffragist politicians, leading some, in all three parties, to consider adopting a measure of women's enfranchisement as a party plank. By 1913 Marshall was uniquely placed as a lobbyist, with inside information and sympathetic listeners in every party. Through her the dynamically re-organized NUWSS brought the women's suffrage issue to the fore of public awareness. It pushed the Labour Party to adopt a strong stand on women's suffrage and raised working-class consciousness, re-awakening a long-dormant demand for full adult enfranchisement. Had the general election due in 1915 taken place, NUWSS financial and organizational support for the Labour Party might well have been substantial enough to influence the final results. These impressive achievements were forgotten by the time Catherine Marshall died in 1961. Even recent research on the period has failed to show the full significance of the issue of women's suffrage, much less Marshall's part in the movement. Jo Vellacott's revealing account of Marshall's political work also includes vivid descriptions of a liberal Victorian childhood, a strangely purposeless young adulthood, and the heady experiences of women who, through the awakening of political consciousness, forged a lifestyle to fit their new aspirations.

Author : David Powell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2004-09-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134266944

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British Politics, 1910-1935 by David Powell Pdf

This accessible new study provides a much-needed guide to the pivotal period of British history between 1910 and 1935, against the background of upheavals such as the First World War and the transition to full democracy as a consequence of the Reform Acts of 1918 and 1928. Combining an up-to-date synthesis of previous work with a reappraisal of the main personalities, themes and events of the period, David Powell brings clarity to this crucial yet complex period. Examining British politics on the eve of war, David Powell assesses the impact of war on the parties and the political system and the process of realignment that followed in the interwar period. In particular he analyzes to what extent these events as a whole constituted a crisis of the party system. From the structure of the Edwardian political system and the party politics of pre-war Britain, through to the economic and political crisis of 1931 and the subsequent rebuilding of the party system, this comprehensive analysis offers an indispensable survey to all students of British history or politics.