The Rise of the Labour Party 1880-1945
The Rise of the Labour Party 1880-1945

Author: Paul Adelman

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-09-25

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 1317887263

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This popular study covers two major topics: the formation of the Labour Party and its emergence as the main rival to the conservatives. This transformation of the British political scene has been accounted for in a variety of ways. Dr Adelman examines these explanations and concludes that while there is a consensus about the reasons for the creation of the Labour Party there is no agreement about why it rose to such prominence.

The Labour Party and the Politics of War and Peace, 1900-1924
The Labour Party and the Politics of War and Peace, 1900-1924

Author: Paul Bridgen

Publisher: Royal Historical Society Studi

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13:

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"This rich analytical account of the Labour party's foreign policy between the party's formation and the fall of the first Labour government in 1924 demonstrates that the party's policy development during this period was far more sophisticated than has previously been considered." "Rejecting doctrinally rigid approaches to Labour party development, the author demonstrates that many ideological currents flowed through the early Labour party, and, crucially, that one of the strongest traditions influencing the formation of the party's post-war foreign policy objectives was Gladstonian internationalism, rather than the anti-war Cobdenite radicalism of the UDC and its allies. Before the war, Labour is shown to have been actively engaged in attempts by progressives to establish ideological links between socialism, radicalism and liberalism in ways appealing to the new mass electorate. Thereafter, it built on these traditions to help consolidate its claim to be the legitimate heir to nineteenth-century radical traditions in foreign policy." --Book Jacket.

The Rise of the Labour Party 1893-1931
The Rise of the Labour Party 1893-1931

Author: Gordon Phillips

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2006-10-19

Total Pages: 118

ISBN-13: 1134953852

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This pamphlet examines the principal developments of party organization, electoral growth and policy-making in the period. It gives particular attention to the constituent elements that made up the party and the nature of its support and explores the party's predominant attitudes, ideology and policies from 1900 to 1931.

The Rise of the Labour Party, 1893-1931
The Rise of the Labour Party, 1893-1931

Author: Gordon Ashton Phillips

Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 70

ISBN-13: 9780415040518

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The Rise of the Labour Party 1893-1931provides a brief history of the Labour Party, from its foundation to the collapse of the second Labour government during the financial crisis of 1931. It is designed to introduce students to some of the trends and controversies in recent historical scholarship on this topic, and to examine the principal developments of party organization, electoral growth, and policy-making. Gordon Phillips gives particular emphasis to the question of Labour's search for popular support and the conditions prevailing at the birth of the Labour Representation Committee, which initiated the need to establish a political organization to represent labor. He examines the constituent elements which formed the party, how it survived the early years of crisis and difficulty to become first the opposition and then, briefly, the governing party. Finally, he explores the party's attitudes, ideology, and policies from 1900-1931. By bringing the central themes of the topic into sharp focus and highlighting recent trends and research, the book provides the reader with an accessible, stimulating and up-to-date interpretation of this important period in British history.

The Labour Party and British Society
The Labour Party and British Society

Author: David Rubinstein

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781845190552

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Covers the entire history of the Labour Party in Britain, with a special focus on the economic and social influence on the Party's development, and includes a history of the emergence of the British welfare state.

Under Siege
Under Siege

Author: Ian Bullock

Publisher: Athabasca University Press

Published: 2017-11-30

Total Pages: 430

ISBN-13: 1771991550

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During the period between the two world wars, the Independent Labour Party (ILP) was the main voice of radical democratic socialism in Great Britain. Founded in 1893, the ILP had, since 1906, operated under the aegis of the Labour Party. As that party edged nearer to power following World War I, forming minority governments in 1924 and again in 1929, the ILP found its own identity under siege. On one side stood those who wanted the ILP to subordinate itself to an increasingly cautious and conventional Labour leadership; on the other stood those who felt that the ILP should throw its lot in with the Communist Party of Great Britain. After the ILP disaffiliated from Labour in 1932 in order to pursue a new, “revolutionary” policy, it was again torn, this time between those who wanted to merge with the Communists and those who saw the ILP as their more genuinely revolutionary and democratic rival. At the opening of the 1930s, the ILP boasted five times the membership of the Communist Party, as well as a sizeable contingent of MPs. By the end of the decade, having tested the possibility of creating a revolutionary party in Britain almost to the point of its own destruction, the ILP was much diminished—although, unlike the Communists, it still retained a foothold in Parliament. Despite this reversal of fortunes, during the 1930s—years that witnessed the ascendancy of both Stalin and Hitler—the ILP demonstrated an unswerving commitment to democratic socialist thinking. Drawing extensively on the ILP’s Labour Leader and other contemporary left-wing newspapers, as well as on ILP publications and internal party documents, Bullock examines the debates and ideological battles of the ILP during the tumultuous interwar period. He argues that the ILP made a lasting contribution to British politics in general, and to the modern Labour Party in particular, by preserving the values of democratic socialism during the interwar period.