The Labour League of Youth : an Account of the Failure of the Labour Party to Sustain a Successful Youth Organisation.

By:

Webb, Michelle

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Lewiston : The Edwin Mellen Press, 2010.Description: 1 online resource (302 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780773444225
077344422X

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:

324.24107083/5 324.241070835

LOC classification:

JN1129.L32

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Contents:

Introduction -- The framework of analysis -- A difficult birth -- What did you do in the League? -- The first League of Youth -- The second League of Youth -- The Labour League of Youth in the West Riding of Yorkshire, including a case study of Huddersfield -- Young socialists to young labour -- Conclusion.

Summary: The book chronicles, for the first time, the full history of the Labour Party's youth movement from the LOY, established 1924, to the present organisation, Young Labour, established 1994. Previously unpublished primary source material, including oral interviews, provides a narrative that illuminates the culture, organisation and political activism of the youth sections and highlights the similarities and differences between them as well as their relationship with the party leadership at local and national level.

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The book chronicles, for the first time, the full history of the Labour Party's youth movement from the LOY, established 1924, to the present organisation, Young Labour, established 1994. Previously unpublished primary source material, including oral interviews, provides a narrative that illuminates the culture, organisation and political activism of the youth sections and highlights the similarities and differences between them as well as their relationship with the party leadership at local and national level.