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'Red Ellen' Wilkinson : her ideas, movements and world / / Matt Perry



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Autore: Perry Matt <1967-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: 'Red Ellen' Wilkinson : her ideas, movements and world / / Matt Perry Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Manchester, England ; ; New York, New York : , : Manchester University Press, , 2014
2014
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (425 p.)
Disciplina: 941.084092
Soggetto geografico: Great Britain Politics and government 1936-
Soggetto non controllato: Anti-fascism
Labour
Marxism
biography
feminism
socialism
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 'RED ELLEN' WILKINSON: HER IDEAS, MOVEMENTS AND WORLD; Half Title Page; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Socialist ideas and movements; 2. Feminism and the women's movement; 3. The trade union movement; 4. Against imperialism and war; 5. The Commons and the Parliamentary Labour Party; 6. A journey through the crisis years: the slump, travel and anti-fascism; 7. 'The hope of the world': Spain in revolution and war, 1933-39; 8. In government, 1940-47; Select bibliography; Index
Sommario/riassunto: Unearthing new evidence to provide a richer understanding of her life, this study, now available in paperback, delves beyond the familiar image of Ellen Wilkinson on the Jarrow Crusade. From a humble background, she ascended to the rank of minister in the 1945 Labour government. Yet she was much more than a conventional Labour politician. She wrote journalism, political theory and novels. She was both a socialist and a feminist; at times, she described herself as a revolutionary. She experienced Soviet Russia, the Indian civil disobedience campaign, the Spanish Civil War and the Third Reich. This study deploys transnational and social movement theory perspectives to grapple with the complex itinerary of her ideas. Interest in Wilkinson remains strong among academic and non-academic audiences alike. This is in part because her principal concerns - working-class representation, the status of women, capitalist crisis, war, anti-fascism - remain central to contentious politics today.
Titolo autorizzato: Red Ellen' Wilkinson  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-7190-9848-3
0-7190-9849-1
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910797716803321
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