Red Scotland! : The Rise and Fall of the Radical Left, C. 1872 to 1932

William Kenefick

ISBN 10: 0748625178 / ISBN 13: 9780748625178

Editore: Edinburgh University Press Jul 2007, 2007

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Neuware - William Kenefick explores the impact of left-wing political radicalism, industrial unrest, and the Russian Revolution on the Scottish people not only in the west of Scotland but in Edinburgh and Leith, Dundee and Perth, Aberdeen, and the coalfields of Fife and the Lothians. He also considers the effect of industrial and political radicalism in the Scottish diaspora. Codice articolo 9780748625178

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Titolo: Red Scotland! : The Rise and Fall of the ...

Casa editrice: Edinburgh University Press Jul 2007

Data di pubblicazione: 2007

Legatura: Buch

Condizione: Neu

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An excellent resource for teaching and learning, this book explores the rise and decline of left radicalism in Scotland c.1872 to 1932. A journey through these turbulent times observes the response of Scottish artisans to legal restrictions on trade-union activities in the 1870s, trade union formation among the unskilled from the late 1880s, and the origins and impact of the Scottish socialist movement.

The Labour movement in Scotland was to face many new challenges by the twentieth century. During the era of 'Red Scotland', 1910 to 1922, we see Scottish workers fully engaged in the labour and social unrest in the years before the Great War; monitor the incubation of workers' grievances during the war; see the growth of the anti-war movement and the influence of revolutionary politics from 1918; and witness Scottish Labour on the threshold of an extraordinary political breakthrough by 1922. The 1920s saw the rapid rise of Labour, but growing unemployment and a massive emigration of Scottish workers helped to fragment the left and set in motion the decline of left radicalism in Scotland. This book represents a major and up to date survey of the most dramatic years in the history of Scottish Labour.

Informazioni sugli autori:

William Kenefick is Lecturer in Modern Scottish History at the University of Dundee and author of Rebellious and Contrary: The Glasgow Dockers c.1853 to 1932 (East Linton, Tuckwell Press, 2000). He was co-editor of The Roots of Red Clydeside 1910 to 1914?: Labour and Industrial Unrest in West Scotland (Edinburgh, John Donald, 1996).

William Kenefick is Lecturer in Modern Scottish History at the University of Dundee