Labour and the Caucus: Working-Class Radicalism and Organised Liberalism in England, 1868–1888 (Studies in Labour History, 3)
ISBN-13:
9781846319440
ISBN-10:
1846319447
Edition:
1
Author:
James Owen
Publication date:
2014
Publisher:
Liverpool University Press
Format:
Hardcover
255 pages
Category:
Great Britain
,
European History
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ISBN-13:
9781846319440
ISBN-10:
1846319447
Edition:
1
Author:
James Owen
Publication date:
2014
Publisher:
Liverpool University Press
Format:
Hardcover
255 pages
Category:
Great Britain
,
European History
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Labour and the Caucus: Working-Class Radicalism and Organised Liberalism in England, 1868–1888 (Studies in Labour History, 3) (ISBN-13: 9781846319440 and ISBN-10: 1846319447), written by authors
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Labour and the Caucus provides a new, innovative pre-history of the Labour party. In the two decades following the Second Reform Act there was a sustained and concerted campaign for working-class parliamentary representation from a range of labour organisations to an extent that was hitherto unseen in British political history. The franchise revolution of 1867 and the controversial introduction of more sophisticated forms of electoral machinery, which became known as the caucus, raised serious questions not only for a labour movement seeking to secure political representation but also for a Liberal party that had to respond to the pressures of mass politics. Through a close examination of the interactions between labour and the caucus from the 1868 general election to Keir Hardies independent labour candidature in 1888, this book provides a comprehensive and multi-layered picture of the troubled relationship between working-class radicals and organised Liberalism. The electoral strategy of labour ca
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