Democratic Ideas and the British Labour Movement, 1880–1914
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This is the first detailed survey of democratic ideas on the British Left in the period leading to 1914. Socialists of the late nineteenth century inherited assumptions about the priority of democracy from a long tradition of British Radicalism. However, the advent of the Fabians, who rejected this tradition as primitive, and of an ILP leadership more concerned to enter than reform parliament, meant that the movement was split between 'strong' and 'weak' views of democracy. By the eve of the First World War a consensus was emerging that might have formed the basis for a more realistic and more radical approach to democracy than has actually been pursued by the Labour Party and the Left during the twentieth century. Democratic Ideas and the British Labour Movement assesses an important debate in the history of socialist ideas and in the formation of the British Labour movement.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I: 1. The survival of Chartist assumptions; 2. Democracy and socialism in the 1890s; 3. Democracy and the industrial struggle; Part II: 4. Conflicts in the ILP; 5. The pressure to federate: the industrial struggle in the late 1890s; 6. The rise and fall of the Clarion Federation; Part III: 7. The early 1900s: a hinge period; 8. Socialists and the state; 9. Parliamentary socialism? Labour in parliament; 10. Parliamentary democracy? 'Fred's obsession' and the path to the Bradford resolution; 11. Background to sydicalism: the legacy of the NIGFLTU's failure; 12. Avoiding the 'Servile State'. The impact of syndicalism and guild socialism; 13. 1914: an emerging consensus on the eve of Armageddon; 14. Conclusions; Appendix. Federation for local Labour historians - and for national; Index.

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'It traces the importance of democracy from those who took on the mantle of the Chartists, to those who came together to form the Labour Party, and from those who believed in strong democracy to those who believed that they could change the world simply by being in power without winning the arguments among the majority of the electorate.' Chartist


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780521560429
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 338
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 22 mm
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 052156042X
  • Publisher Date: 07 Mar 1996
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 670 gr


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