Working Class Mod British History: Essays in Honour of Henry Pelling - Brossura

Winter, Jay

 
9780521299541: Working Class Mod British History: Essays in Honour of Henry Pelling

Sinossi

The thirteen essays in this book reflect the dual character of writing about the history of the British working class.

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Descrizione del libro

The thirteen essays in this book reflect the dual character of writing about the history of the British working class. The first section focuses on the outlook, organization, and policies of the Labour movement. The second section is concerned with central aspects of the social history of the working class.

Contenuti

Part I. The working class in British politics: 1. The social democratic theory of the class struggle Peter Clarke; 2. Keir Hardie and the Labour Leader, 1893–1903 Fred Reid; 3. Winston Churchill and the working class, 1900–14 Paul Addison; 4. Expectations born to death: local Labour party expansion in the 1920s Christopher Howard; 5. Post-war reconstruction in Wales, 1918 and 1945 Kenneth O. Morgan; 6. Imperialism and the Labour government of 1945–51 Partha Sarathi Gupta; Part II. The working class in British society: 7. Work and hobbies in Britain, 1880–1950 Ross McKibbin; 8. Credit and thrift and the British working class, 1870–1939 Paul Johnson; 9. Intelligent artisans and aristocrats of labour: the essays of Thomas Wright Alastair Reid; 10. Anglo-Marxism and working-class education Chushichi Tsuzuki; 11. Did British workers want the welfare state? G. D. H. Cole's Survey of 1942 Jose Harris; 12. Images of the working class since 1930 Arthur Marwick; 13. Unemployment, nutrition and infant mortality in Britain, 1920–50 Jay Winter.

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9780521234443: The Working Class in Modern British History: Essays in Honour of Henry Pelling

Edizione in evidenza

ISBN 10:  0521234441 ISBN 13:  9780521234443
Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 1983
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