Labour at War: France and Britain 1914-1918 - Rilegato

Horne, John N.

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ISBN 10: 019820180X ISBN 13: 9780198201809

Casa editrice: Clarendon Press, 1991

Riassunto

Copywriter: include this in European/French History rather than British

This is a comparative study of national labour movements in France and Britain during the First World War. Historians of labour in this period have concentrated on pacifism, and on the post-war radicalism and emergent communism to which that contributed. John N. Horne focuses instead on the majorities in both the French and the British labour movements which continued to support the war to its end. He examines the terms of their support, and the broader working-class experience which this reflected, showing how a critical programme of socialist reforms was gradually developed.

Labour at War is a genuinely comparative analysis, based on intensive primary research in both countries. It is an important contribution both to labour history, and to the social and political history of the First World War.

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`a richly detailed and satisfying work - which is not a page too long ... Dr Horne skilfully manages both to control a vast mass of material and to demonstrate how different circumstances produced a similar response. It is an impressive performance.'John Gooch, The Higher

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This is a comparative study of national labour movements in France and Britain during the First World War. Historians of labour in this period have concentrated on pacifism, and on the post-war radicalism and emergent communism to which that contributed. John N.Horne focuses instead on the majorities in both the French and the British labour movements which continued to support the war to its end. He examines the terms of their support, and the broader working-class experience which this reflected, showing how a critical programme of socialist reforms was gradually developed as the price of labour collaboration. "Labour at War" is a genuinely comparative analysis, based on intensive primary research in both countries. It is an important contribution both to labour history, and to the social and political history of the First World War.

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• Editore: Clarendon Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1991
• ISBN 10: 019820180X
• ISBN 13: 9780198201809
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 488