Labour and working-class lives : essays to celebrate the life and work of Chris Wrigley / Keith Laybourn, John Shepherd.

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Cover ; Labour and working-class lives; Contents; Editors and contributors; Chris Wrigley: a tribute: Professor the Lord Hennessy of Nympsfield, FBA; Chris Wrigley: a personal reflection: Professor Margaret Walsh; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; 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 northeast England, 1881-1926: Joan Allen.

4 Transforming the unemployed: trade union benefits and the advent of state policy: Noel Whiteside5 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, 1932-59: Janet Shepherd; 8 Working-class culture in Britain and Germany, 1870-1914: 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 Robertson10 'We never trained our children to be socialists': the next Lansbury generation and Labour politics, 1881-1951: 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; A select list of the publications of Chris Wrigley; Index.

Summary: This collection of essays deals with the latest research on British labour history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It has been written by leading British historians, such as Ken Brown, Malcolm Chase and Matthew Worley, in honour of Professor Chris Wrigley and looks at the origins of British trade unions, the links between trade unionism and the Labour Party, women's trade unionism, and communist and Punk Rock. It will be of particular interest to history politics students and staff.

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This collection of essays deals with the latest research on British labour history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It has been written by leading British historians, such as Ken Brown, Malcolm Chase and Matthew Worley, in honour of Professor Chris Wrigley and looks at the origins of British trade unions, the links between trade unionism and the Labour Party, women's trade unionism, and communist and Punk Rock. It will be of particular interest to history politics students and staff.