Social-Imperialism in Britain: The Lancashire Working Class and Two World Wars

Description

‎Contents......Page 9 ‎Acknowledgements......Page 11 ‎Introduction......Page 13 ‎Chapter 1. Rallying Round the Flag......Page 23 ‎1. The Labour Movement and the War......Page 24 ‎2. Mustering the Masses for War......Page 32 ‎3. The End of the Road for Liberalism?......Page 39 ‎4. The Discontents and Demands of the Labour Movement......Page 45 ‎5. ‘Dilution’ and the Mobilisation of Women......Page 52 ‎1. Conscriptions and ‘Conchies’......Page 61 ‎2. Social Patriots and (a Few) Internationalists......Page 64 ‎3. Labour Unrest and (Eventual) Government Response......Page 71 ‎4. Strikes, Shop Stewards and Revolutionaries......Page 78 ‎5. A Better World Coming?......Page 83 ‎6. More Strikes, More Shop Stewards and Some Revolutionaries......Page 93 ‎Chapter 3. 1919: a ‘Red Year’?......Page 107 ‎1. A Revolutionary Situation in Britain?......Page 108 ‎2. Expanding the Franchise: Suffragettes, Suffragists and the Labour Party......Page 110 ‎3. Labourists, Feminists and Socialists: Labour’s New Platform......Page 114 ‎4. The Labour Movement in the General Election of 1918......Page 120 ‎5. 1919: a Tumultuous but Not ‘Red Year’ in Lancashire......Page 129 ‎6. Housing Reform and the Municipal Elections of 1919......Page 136 ‎7. The Post-war Crisis, the Working Class, and the Empire......Page 140 ‎1. An Imperialist War in Anti-fascist Clothing......Page 153 ‎2. The Crisis of 1940......Page 161 ‎3. Building a Labour-Capital Pact......Page 164 ‎4. Never Again! The Early Growth of Popular Reform Sentiment......Page 170 ‎5. Dissent and Discontent in the Working Class and in the Labour Movement......Page 175 ‎6. Joint Production Committees: a ‘Nazi System of Labour Organisation’?......Page 180 ‎7. Out of the Kitchen Again: Mobilising Women to ‘Do Their Bit’......Page 185 ‎8. Not Counting the Colonies: the Labour Movement and the Empire......Page 190 ‎9. A Social-Imperialist Surge for Reform......Page 195 ‎1. Beveridge Promises a New World......Page 201 ‎2. The ‘Old Gang’ Takes an Ideological and Political Beating......Page 207 ‎3. A Resurgence of Industrial Unrest......Page 211 ‎4. A Touch on the Reform Accelerator......Page 213 ‎5. More Promises, More Unrest, More Discontent......Page 219 ‎6. Social Imperialism Triumphant: the Last Phase of the War......Page 226 ‎7. Labour to Power: the End of the War and the General Election......Page 235 ‎Conclusion and Postscript......Page 248 ‎Primary Sources......Page 255 ‎Secondary Sources......Page 256 ‎Index......Page 270