Labour People: Leaders and Lieutenants, Hardie to Kinnock - Softcover

Morgan, Kenneth O.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0192852701 ISBN 13: 9780192852700

Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks, 1992

Synopsis

The British Labour movement has always venerated the collective ideal: solidarity, mass endeavour, the common good. Yet paradoxically, it draws constant inspiration from the ideas and achievements of key individuals; it needs and reveres the charismatic figures of both past and present. From Hardie to Bevan to Kinnock, Benn and Scargill, Labour's progress or decline has always been bound up with its major personalities and the concept of leadership. In this book, Morgan provides a reassessment of these leaders and lieutenants throughout the nine decades of Labour's stormy history. In a gallery of vivid portraits, each based on original material and some also on personal acquaintance, he presents the parliamentary leaders, trade union officials, intellectuals, machine apparatchiks, prophets, planners and pioneers of four main chronological periods. "Labour People" aims to provide a new framework for understanding the history, ideas, strengths and limitations of the British Labour movement in the 20th century.

About this title

About the Author:

Kenneth O. -l Morgan is a Fellow of the Queen's College, Oxford. He is Editor of the Oxford Illustrated History of Britain; author of Labour in Power 1945-1951, Rebirth of a Nation: Wales 1890-1980.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0192852701
• ISBN 13: 9780192852700
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 382