Reshaping Labour (Routledge Library Editions: The Labour Movement) - Hardcover

Holford, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1138333948 ISBN 13: 9781138333949

Publisher: Routledge, 2018

Synopsis

First published in 1988. In a few short years during and just after the Great War, the Labour Party and the trade unions established themselves firmly at the centre of the British political and industrial scene. But at the same time, the politics and organisation of both Labour and unions were reshaped.

This is a grass-roots study of a key period in the building of Labour’s political and industrial base. It is a study of how unions and Labour were organised and motivated to seize their moments of destiny – and of how a new political industrial movement was limited by the common-sense of the age in which it was born. It is a study of shifting support for various Labour and Communist political and industrial strategies – of the pressures and struggles which reshaped the movement, stamping on it the character we know today. And it is a study of how labour – at work and in the community – responded to war, to prosperity, to depression.

About this title

About the Author:

John Holford has been Robert Peers Professor of Adult Education at the University of Nottingham since 2007. He wrote Reshaping Labour while working as a Tutor-Organiser for the Workers’ Educational Association in North Kent. Subsequently he taught in adult education at the University of Hong Kong and the University of Surrey, where he was later founding head of the Politics department.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1138333948
• ISBN 13: 9781138333949
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 296