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Record Nr.

UNINA9910480429703321

Autore

Neil Redfern

Titolo

Social-Imperialism in Britain

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, ; Boston : , : Brill, , 2019

ISBN

90-04-32012-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (279 pages)

Collana

Historical materialism book series ; ; Volume 171

Disciplina

331.11094276090411

Soggetti

Working class - England - Lancashire - History - 20th century

Labor movement - Great Britain - History - 20th century

World War, 1914-1918 - Economic aspects - Great Britain

World War, 1939-1945 - Economic aspects - Great Britain

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Rallying Round the Flag -- Labour’s Unrest and Capital’s Promises -- 1919: a ‘Red Year’? -- Rallying Round the Flag Again -- Building the Social-Imperialist Settlement -- Conclusion and Postscript -- Back Matter -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

In Social-Imperialism in Britain Neil Redfern examines the relationship between British labour and British capital in the two world wars of the twentieth century. He argues that the Second World War, the so-called ‘People’s War’, no less than the First World War, was an imperialist war. He further argues that in both wars labour and capital entered into a social-imperialist contract in which labour would be rewarded for its support for war with such social and political reforms as votes for women and a health service, culminating in the ‘welfare state’ constructed after the Second World War. Concentrating on Lancashire, he examines the complex interaction between military successes and reverses, elite war aims, labour unrest and popular demands for reform.