Social-Imperialism in Britain: The Lancashire Working Class and Two World Wars

‎Contents......Page 9
‎Acknowledgements......Page 11
‎Introduction......Page 13
‎Chapter 1. Rallying Round the Flag......Page 23
‎1. The Labour Movement and the War......Page 24
‎2. Mustering the Masses for War......Page 32
‎3. The End of the Road for Liberalism?......Page 39
‎4. The Discontents and Demands of the Labour Movement......Page 45
‎5. ‘Dilution’ and the Mobilisation of Women......Page 52
‎1. Conscriptions and ‘Conchies’......Page 61
‎2. Social Patriots and (a Few) Internationalists......Page 64
‎3. Labour Unrest and (Eventual) Government Response......Page 71
‎4. Strikes, Shop Stewards and Revolutionaries......Page 78
‎5. A Better World Coming?......Page 83
‎6. More Strikes, More Shop Stewards and Some Revolutionaries......Page 93
‎Chapter 3. 1919: a ‘Red Year’?......Page 107
‎1. A Revolutionary Situation in Britain?......Page 108
‎2. Expanding the Franchise: Suffragettes, Suffragists and the Labour Party......Page 110
‎3. Labourists, Feminists and Socialists: Labour’s New Platform......Page 114
‎4. The Labour Movement in the General Election of 1918......Page 120
‎5. 1919: a Tumultuous but Not ‘Red Year’ in Lancashire......Page 129
‎6. Housing Reform and the Municipal Elections of 1919......Page 136
‎7. The Post-war Crisis, the Working Class, and the Empire......Page 140
‎1. An Imperialist War in Anti-fascist Clothing......Page 153
‎2. The Crisis of 1940......Page 161
‎3. Building a Labour-Capital Pact......Page 164
‎4. Never Again! The Early Growth of Popular Reform Sentiment......Page 170
‎5. Dissent and Discontent in the Working Class and in the Labour Movement......Page 175
‎6. Joint Production Committees: a ‘Nazi System of Labour Organisation’?......Page 180
‎7. Out of the Kitchen Again: Mobilising Women to ‘Do Their Bit’......Page 185
‎8. Not Counting the Colonies: the Labour Movement and the Empire......Page 190
‎9. A Social-Imperialist Surge for Reform......Page 195
‎1. Beveridge Promises a New World......Page 201
‎2. The ‘Old Gang’ Takes an Ideological and Political Beating......Page 207
‎3. A Resurgence of Industrial Unrest......Page 211
‎4. A Touch on the Reform Accelerator......Page 213
‎5. More Promises, More Unrest, More Discontent......Page 219
‎6. Social Imperialism Triumphant: the Last Phase of the War......Page 226
‎7. Labour to Power: the End of the War and the General Election......Page 235
‎Conclusion and Postscript......Page 248
‎Primary Sources......Page 255
‎Secondary Sources......Page 256
‎Index......Page 270