[PDF] Labour And The Caucus eBook

Author : James Owen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 32,62 MB
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 1846319447

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By providing a comprehensive and multi-layered picture of the troubled relationship between working-class radicals and organised liberalism in England between 1868 and 1888, 'Labour and the Caucus' offers an innovative pre-history of the Labour Party.

Author : James Owen
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 43,48 MB
Release : 2014-02-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1781385653

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By providing a comprehensive and multi-layered picture of the troubled relationship between working-class radicals and organised Liberalism in England between 1868 and 1888, Labour and the Caucus offers a new, innovative pre-history of the Labour party.

Author : James Owen
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File Size : 42,6 MB
Release : 2023-02
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ISBN : 9781802078220

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Labour and the Caucus provides a new, innovative pre-history of the Labour party. In the two decades following the Second Reform Act there was a sustained and concerted campaign for working-class parliamentary representation from a range of labour organisations to an extent that was hitherto unseen in British political history. The franchise revolution of 1867 and the controversial introduction of more sophisticated forms of electoral machinery, which became known as the 'caucus', raised serious questions not only for a labour movement seeking to secure political representation but also for a Liberal party that had to respond to the pressures of mass politics. Through a close examination of the interactions between labour and the caucus from the 1868 general election to Keir Hardies independent labour candidature in 1888, this book provides a comprehensive and multi-layered picture of the troubled relationship between working-class radicals and organised Liberalism. The electoral strategy of labour candidates, the links between urban and rural radicalism, the impact of the National Liberal Federation, the influence of American and Irish politics on the labour movement, the revival of socialism, and the contested identity of a Labour party are all examined from fresh perspectives. In doing so, this book challenges the existing teleological assumptions about the rise of independent labour, and explores the questions that remain about how working-class radicals and Liberals shared and negotiated power, and how this relationship changed over time.

Author : Bruce Jesson
Publisher : Penguin Group
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 19,22 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Political Science
ISBN :

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"The reversal of traditional Labour policies by the present Government has thrown New Zealand into a period of economic and social disintegration. The final victim of this process has been the Labour Government itself, with the dismissal of Finance Minister Roger Douglas in December 1988 on the one hand, the formation of the New Labour Party in May 1989 on the other -- and the dramatic slide of the Government's popularity in the opinion polls. "Fragments of Labour" is the story of this process of disintegraton ..."--Back cover.