Respectable Radicals

Respectable Radicals

Author: David Howell

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-03-02

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 1351903764

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Railway workers were a uniformed and respectable section of the Victorian and Edwardian working class. They built their trade unions in the face of employer hostility and their organisations played a crucial role in the construction of effective labour politics. Local political organisations owed much to the patience and creativity of railway workers, not least in small towns and country districts. Respectable Radicals uses rich archival sources to analyse this history through a series of case studies. It focuses, among other topics, on disasters, strikes, the modernisation policies of companies, inter-union rivalries and the promises and frustrations of labour politics. A dominant theme is the complex relationship between changing experiences of work, shifting trade union strategies and political identities. The result is a new perspective on a significant sector of trade unionism and on the character of labour politics from the 1890s to the 1950s.


Radical Reformers and Respectable Rebels

Radical Reformers and Respectable Rebels

Author: J. Robson

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-06-16

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 1137311843

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In 1907, Grace Oakeshott faked her own death by drowning. Aged 35, she left a marriage and a successful professional life in England and fled with her lover, Walter Reeve, to New Zealand. What prompted her to do so? Jocelyn Robson traces her life story through social, political and religious reform movements of the fin de siècle period.


Respectable Radical

Respectable Radical

Author: F. M. Leventhal

Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson

Published: 1971

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13:

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Biographical account of the life of george howell and his work in developing the trade union movement in the UK from about 1860 to 1910 - traces his career as secretary of the reform league, founder member of the trades union congress and one of the first working-class members of parliament in the liberal political party. Biography howell g.


Respectable Radicals

Respectable Radicals

Author: Marian Quartly

Publisher:

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781922235947

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This historical account of the National Council of Women of Australia (NCWA) tells the story of mainstream feminism in Australia, of the long struggle for equality at home and at work, which is still far from achieved.


Rules for Radicals

Rules for Radicals

Author: Saul Alinsky

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2010-06-30

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 0307756890

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“This country's leading hell-raiser" (The Nation) shares his impassioned counsel to young radicals on how to effect constructive social change and know “the difference between being a realistic radical and being a rhetorical one.” First published in 1971 and written in the midst of radical political developments whose direction Alinsky was one of the first to question, this volume exhibits his style at its best. Like Thomas Paine before him, Alinsky was able to combine, both in his person and his writing, the intensity of political engagement with an absolute insistence on rational political discourse and adherence to the American democratic tradition.


Radical Underworld

Radical Underworld

Author: Iain McCalman

Publisher: CUP Archive

Published: 1988-03-03

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 9780521307550

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This highly acclaimed study draws on information from spy reports and contemporary literature to look at English popular radicalism during the period between the anti-Jacobin government "Terror" of the 1790s and the beginnings of Chartism. The book traces for the first time the history of theunderground revolutionary-republican grouping founded by the agrarian reformer, Thomas Spence. Challenging conventional distinctions between "high" and "low" culture, McCalman illuminates the darker, more populist sides of Romanticism. Radical Underworld broadens the conventional boundaries ofpopular politics and culture by exploring a political underworld connected with poverty, crime, prophetic religion, and literary culture.


Britain in the Age of the French Revolution

Britain in the Age of the French Revolution

Author: Jennifer Mori

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-07-22

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 1317891880

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This new survey looks at the impact in Britain of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic aftermath, across all levels of British society. Jennifer Mori provides a clear and accessible guide to the ideas and intellectual debates the revolution stimulated, as well as popular political movements including radicalism.


Party Families in Western Europe

Party Families in Western Europe

Author: Peter Egge Langsæther

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-07-21

Total Pages: 263

ISBN-13: 042980993X

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This comprehensive and comparative book makes clear what party families are and, in doing so, helps categorise and make sense of parties in different countries. It describes the ideology of the families in Western Europe as well as classifying political parties accordingly. Furthermore, the book examines who the party families’ supporters are in terms of their social background and political values. What role do class, education, and religion play in the 21st century? Finally, the book provides a discussion of the degree to which the concept of party families is still meaningful in the 21st century and how it needs to be studied comparatively and comprehensively. Is party family still valid as a conceptual device to classify and compare parties across countries in Western Europe? This text will be of key interest to scholars, students, and practitioners working in the field of political behaviour, political parties and party politics, policy studies, and more broadly comparative and European politics.


Prophets and Conspirators in Prerevolutionary Russia

Prophets and Conspirators in Prerevolutionary Russia

Author: Adam B. Ulam

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-04-27

Total Pages: 463

ISBN-13: 135130786X

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In this magisterial and exciting book, Ulam offers a brilliant history of Russian political and intellectual life in those critical years from 1855 to 1884 and describes the successive conspiracies that shook the edifice of tsarist autocracy.