7 edition of The British labour movement to 1970 found in the catalog.
Published
1981
by Mansell Pub. in London
.
Written in English
Edition Notes
Includes index.
Statement | compiled by Harold Smith ; with a foreword by Asa Briggs. |
Classifications | |
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LC Classifications | Z7164.L1 S47, HD8388 S47 |
The Physical Object | |
Pagination | xviii, 250 p. ; |
Number of Pages | 250 |
ID Numbers | |
Open Library | OL3926091M |
ISBN 10 | 0720109248 |
LC Control Number | 81670087 |
While not mentioned to the degree I think necessary in the context-setting portion of the book, this pragmatist feature of the U.S. labor movement, in the sense of closing off the future, was one of the consequences of the purges and anticommunism fervor (er, fever) of the s and beyond. Critical and iconoclastic, Comrade or Brother? traces the history of the British Labour Movement from its beginnings at the onset of industrialisation through its development within a capitalist society, up to the end of the twentieth-century. Written by a leading activist in the labour movement, the book redresses the balance in much labour history s: 3.
In the aftermath of world war II, british and u.s. interests collaborated to purge the labor movement of any radical (Communist) influences and leadership. This was not just a Cold War strategy, but also a way of ensuring that when political independence came—which the British knew was inevitable—it did so with local political leadership in. The description seems to be a fair one. On the one-hundredth anniversary of the Russian Revolution and the coming together of the many and varied strands of the British labour movement at the Leeds Convention, Spokesman is pleased to re-publish 'British Labour and the Russian Revolution' with additional materials. Price: £
The book reproduces the original title-page, and resets the remainder of the text. The evocative photographs of strike action and key figures in the labour movement were sourced by Susan Craig from the Barbados Government Information Service and by La Rose from the Fabian Society. 2 Comments on Only the labour movement can stop Johnson’s no-deal Brexit Duncan Chapel // 14th August at am // Reply I am just confused by articles like this: the methods described in this article won’t stop Brexit.
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