The Foundations of the British Labour Party : Identities, Cultures and Perspectives, 1900-39 (Hardcover)

Contents: Introduction, Matthew Worley; John Robert Clynes and the making of Labour socialism, 1890-1918, Robert Taylor; Lines of division: railway unions and Labour, 1900-39, Gerald Crompton; Deadweight or bedrock? The mineworkers and Labour, Andrew Taylor; The European context: aspects of British Labour and continental socialism before 1920, Chris Wrigley; Myth, history and the Independent Labour Party, Gidon Cohen; Labour and the intellectuals, David Stack; The distinctiveness of British socialism? Religion and the rise of Labour, c.1900-39, Peter Catterall; Labour's lost soul? Recovering the Labour church, Jacqueline Turner; Women and Labour politics, June Hannam; The fruits on the tree: Labour's constituency parties between the wars, Matthew Worley; 'A union of forces marching in the same direction'? The relationship between the Co-operative and Labour parties, 1918-39, Nicole Robertson; Counter-Toryism: Labour's response to anti-socialist propaganda, 1918-39, Laura Beers; Index.