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

Morgan, Kenneth O.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0198229291 ISBN 13: 9780198229292

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1987

Synopsis

The British labour movement has always venerated the collective ideal: solidarity, mass endeavour, the common good. Yet, it also draws constant inspiration from the ideas and achievements of single individuals. From Hardie to Bevan, from Benn to Kinnock and Scargill, Labour's progress or decline has always been inextricably bound with its major personalities and the concept of leadership. Labour People opens up a gallery of vivid portraits, covering nine decade of Labour's stormy history. Drawing on extensive original material, and in some cases, personal acquaintance, it presents the parliamentary leaders, trade union officials, intellectuals, machine apparatchiks, prophets, planners, and pioneers of four main chronological periods. Noted labour historian Kenneth Morgan begins his survey of Labour's greats with the founding fathers who shaped the turn-of-the-century labour policies, and moves on to the young economic planners of the 1940s and the post World War II revisionists, ending with current profiles of Britain's formidable mining leaders. Setting these portraits in a historical and comparative framework, this book provides a panoramic vista of the history, ideas, strengths, and limitations of the British Labour movement in the 20th century.

About this title

Synopsis:

An examination of the careers of Labour party leaders, officials, intellectuals, trades unionists, prophets, planners, and pioneers which reflects on the influence that individual personalities have had on a party movement which has always venerated the collective ideal.

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 University Press
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0198229291
• ISBN 13: 9780198229292
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 382