The Working Class in Modern British History Essays in Honour of Henry Pelling [Paperback]

The thirteen essays in this book reflect the dual character of writing about the history of the British working class.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.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.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. Together, these essays provide striking evidence of the ways in which the experience of class has pervaded virtually every corner of this nation's public life. They also show that the mixed political record of organized Labour, its hesitations and failures as well as its struggles and successes, cannot be understood without a full appreciation of the collective and individual lives of working people outside the political arena.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, 18931903 Fred Reid; 3. Winston Churchill and the working class, 190014 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 194551 Partha Sarathi Gupta; Part II. The working class in British society: 7.lc(