Keith Laybourn - Labour and Working-class Lives: Essays to Celebrate the Life and Work of Chris Wrigley

Labour and Working-class Lives: Essays to Celebrate the Life and Work of Chris Wrigley — read online for free the complete book (whole text) full work

Below is the text of the book, divided by pages. System saving the place of the last page read, allows you to conveniently read the book "Labour and Working-class Lives: Essays to Celebrate the Life and Work of Chris Wrigley" online for free, without having to search again every time where you left off. Put a bookmark, and you can go to the page where you finished reading at any time.

Light

Font size:

↓

↑

Georgia Tahoma Arial Verdana

Reset

Interval:

↓

↑

Bookmark:

Make

1234567...69

Labour and working-class lives

To Chris Wrigley:

an inspiration behind more than four decades of research and publication into modern British, European and global history

Labour and working-class lives

Essays to celebrate the life and work of Chris Wrigley

Edited by

Keith Laybourn and John Shepherd

Manchester University Press

Copyright Manchester University Press 2017

While copyright in the volume as a whole is vested in Manchester University Press, copyright in individual chapters belongs to their respective authors, and no chapter may be reproduced wholly or in part without the express permission in writing of both author and publisher.

Published by Manchester University Press
Altrincham Street, Manchester M1 7JA

www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk

British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data applied for

ISBN 978 1 7849 9527 0 hardback

First published 2017

The publisher has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for any external or third-party internet websites referred to in this book, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate.

Typeset in Garamond
by R. J. Footring Ltd

Contents

Chris Wrigley: a tribute
Professor the Lord Hennessy of Nympsfield, FBA

Chris Wrigley: a personal reflection
Professor Margaret Walsh

Introduction
Keith Laybourn and John Shepherd

1 George Howell, the Webbs and the political culture of early labour history
Malcolm Chase

2 The appointment of Herbert Gladstone as Liberal Chief Whip in 1899
Kenneth D. Brown

3 A question of neutrality? The politics of co-operation in north-east England, 18811926
Joan Allen

4 Transforming the unemployed: trade union benefits and the advent of state policy
Noel Whiteside

5 The trade union contribution to the British Labour Party
Andrew Thorpe

6 The disaffiliation crisis of 1932: the Labour Party, the Independent Labour Party (ILP) and the opinion of ILP members
Keith Laybourn

7 Voices in the wilderness? The Progressive League and the quest for sexual reform in British politics, 193259
Janet Shepherd

8 Working-class culture in Britain and Germany, 18701914: a comparison
Dick Geary

9 Women at work: activism, feminism and the rise of the female office worker during the First World War and its immediate aftermath
Nicole Robertson

10 We never trained our children to be socialists: the next Lansbury generation and Labour politics, 18811951
John Shepherd

11 Comrades in bondage trousers: how the Communist Party of Great Britain discovered punk rock
Matthew Worley

12 Must Labour lose? Lessons from post-war history
Kevin Jefferys

Editors

Keith Laybourn is Professor of History and the Diamond Jubilee Professor of the University of Huddersfield, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He has known and worked with Chris Wrigley for nearly thirty years. He has written and edited extensively on British labour history, social policy, womens history, the history of voluntary organisations and policing history. He published The General Strike with Manchester University Press in 1993 and many books on the rise of labour, including The Rise of Labour (Arnold, 1988) and Under the Red Flag (Sutton, 1999). With David Taylor he published Policing in England and Wales 19181939: The Fed, the Flying Squad and Forensics (Palgrave, 2011) and his own most recent book is The Battle for the Roads of Britain: Police, Motorists and the Law c. 1890s1970 (Palgrave, 2015). He edited the Annual Bulletin of Historical Literature (19992010) for the Historical Association, is an Honorary Fellow of the Historical Association and is President of the Society for the Study of Labour History (2012 ).

John Shepherd is Visiting Professor of Modern History at the University of Huddersfield and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He has worked in polytechnics and universities and was Visiting Professor, Cofounder and Joint Director of the Labour History Research Unit at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge. His publications include George Lansbury: At the Heart of Old Labour (Oxford University Press, 2002, 2004), Britains First Labour Government, with Keith Laybourn (Palgrave, 2006, 2013) and Crisis? What Crisis? The Callaghan Government and the Winter of Discontent (Manchester University Press, 2013, 2015). He edited with Chris

Wrigley On the Move: Essays in Labour and Transport History Presented to Philip Bagwell (The Hambledon Press, 1991) and also jointly edited with Jonathan Davis and Chris Wrigley Britains Second Labour Government 192931: A Reappraisal (Manchester University Press, 2011). Currently he is completing for Manchester University Press a biography of Dr Jon Cruddas MP, former Shadow Cabinet member and Head of Labours Policy Review, 201215.

Contributors

Joan Allen is Senior Lecturer in Modern British History at the University of Newcastle. She is a member of many history committees, including the Steering Committee History UK, the Executive Committee of Newspaper and Periodical History, the Library Committee of the Institute of Historical Research and the Executive Committee of the Society for the Study of Labour History. She has research interests in Victorian society and politics, nineteenth-century British radicalism, and especially Chartism, for which she is the co-convenor of the Chartist Conference. She has written many articles and published a range of books, including the monograph Joseph Cowen and Popular Radicalism in Tyneside 18291900 (Merlin Press, 2007); she has also edited a number of books, including (with Owen Ashton) Papers for the People: A Study of the Chartist Press (Merlin Press, 2005) and (with Richard Allen) Faith in Our Fathers: Popular Culture and Belief in Post-Reformation England, Ireland and Wales (Cambridge Scholars, 2009). She is currently writing a book on the Catholic press.

Kenneth D. Brown is Professor Emeritus in History at Queens University Belfast and was Pro-Vice-Chancellor from 2001 to 2009, when he retired. He has ranged widely over British labour, business and religious history and written on British and Japanese economic and social development. He is currently finishing a new biography of Herbert Gladstone. Among his publications are Essays in Anti-Labour History (Macmillan, 1974), A Social History of the Nonconformist Ministry in England and Wales, 18001930 (Oxford University Press, 1988), The British Toy Business: A History Since 1700 (Hambledon Continuum, 1996) and Factory of Dreams: A History of Meccano Ltd, 19011979 (Crucible, 2007).

Malcolm Chase is Professor of Social History at the University of Leeds. He has written extensively on British Labour history and Chartism and is currently researching self-improvement, popular reform and public good in the mid-nineteenth century. His publications include

Next page

1234567...69

Light

Font size:

↓

↑

Georgia Tahoma Arial Verdana

Reset

Interval:

↓

↑

Bookmark:

Make

Similar books «Labour and Working-class Lives: Essays to Celebrate the Life and Work of Chris Wrigley»

Look at similar books to Labour and Working-class Lives: Essays to Celebrate the Life and Work of Chris Wrigley. We have selected literature similar in name and meaning in the hope of providing readers with more options to find new, interesting, not yet read works.

Keith Laybourn

Liberalism and the Rise of Labour 1890-1918

Keith Laybourn

The Independent Labour Party, 1914-1939: The Political and Cultural History of a Socialist Party

John Holford

Reshaping Labour: Organisation, Work and Politics

David Kynaston

King Labour: The British Working Class, 1850-1914

VARIOUS.

Routledge Library Editions: The Labour Movement

G. D. H. Cole

British Working Class Politics, 1832-1914

Joseph Gorny

The British Labour Movement and Zionism, 1917-1948

Eric Shaw

Losing Labours Soul?: New Labour and the Blair Government 1997-2007

Neil Johnson

The Labour Church: The Movement & Its Message

Laurence Marley

The British Labour Party and Twentieth-Century Ireland: The Cause of Ireland, the Cause of Labour

Pugh

Speak for Britain! a new history of the Labour Party

Labour Party

The Labour Party and foreign policy: a history

Discussion, reviews of the book Labour and Working-class Lives: Essays to Celebrate the Life and Work of Chris Wrigley and just readers' own opinions. Leave your comments, write what you think about the work, its meaning or the main characters. Specify what exactly you liked and what you didn't like, and why you think so.