Labour united and divided from the 1830s to the present (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Avril, Emmanuelle; Béliard, Yann

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Spanning a period which stretches from the 19th century to the present day, this book takes a novel look at the British labour movement by examining the interaction between trade unions, the Labour Party, other parties and groups of the Left, and the wider working class, to highlight the dialectic nature of these relationships, marked by consensus and dissention. It shows that, although perceived as a source of weakness, those inner conflicts have also been a source of creative tension, at times generating significant breakthroughs. The book brings together labour historians and political scientists who provide a range of case studies as well as more wide-ranging assessments of recent trends in labour organising. It will therefore be of interest to academics and students of history and politics, as well as to practitioners, in the British Isles and beyond.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: The American University in Cairo Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526126344
• Artikelnr.: 55007192

Autorenporträt

Emmanuelle Avril is Professor of Contemporary British Politics and Society at the Sorbonne Nouvelle University, Paris Yann Béliard is Senior Lecturer in British Political and Social History at Sorbonne Nouvelle University, Paris

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The British labour movement between unity and division
Emmanuelle Avril and Yann Béliard Part I: Labour's first century: disputed solidarities 1 The Grand National Consolidated Trades' Union, 1833
1834. Class and conflict in the early British labour movement
Ophélie Siméon 2 The Knights of Labor and the British trade unions, 1880
1900
Steven Parfitt 3 The struggle for control of the Durham Miners' Association, 1890s
1915
Lewis H. Mates 4Contested coordinator. The Hull Trades Council, 1872
1914
Yann Béliard 5 Domestic servants and the labour movement, 1870s
1914: a 'race apart'?
Anna Clark Part II: Convergences, divergences and realignments on the left 6 'The people's main defence against monopoly'? The Co
op, the Labour Party, and Resale Price Maintenance, 1918
1964
David Stewart 7 The British Left's attitude towards the Battle of Athens, December 1944
February 1945: commonalities and divisions
Anastasia Chartomatsidi 8 The decline of revolutionary pragmatism and the splintering of British Communism in the 1980s
Jeremy Tranmer 9 Re
framing the debate on breakaway trade unions in an era of neoliberalism
David Evans. 10 English teachers' unions since 2010. 'A teachers' lobby divided against itself'?
Anne Beauvallet Part III: The Labour Party today: fragmentation or mutation? 11 Dissent in the Parliamentary Labour Party, 1945
2015
Nick Randall 12 'What dire effects from civil discord flow': Party management and legitimacy breakdown in the Labour Party
Eric Shaw 13 The conflicting loyalties of the Scottish Labour Party
Fiona Simpkins 14 The 'movementisation' of the Labour Party and the future of labour organising
Emmanuelle Avril Concluding remarks
Emmanuelle Avril & Yann Béliard Index