''Red Ellen'' Wilkinson - Her Ideas, Movements and World

Informationen zum Autor Matt Perry is Reader in Labour History at Newcastle University Klappentext This study delves beyond the familiar image of Ellen Wilkinson as the leader of the Jarrow Crusade. It has unearthed new evidence to provide a richer understanding of her remarkable achievements, her acquaintances and her witnessing of history's great turning points. 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 met Lenin, Trotsky and Gandhi. She experienced first-hand Soviet Russia, the GM sit-down strikes, the Indian civil disobedience campaign, the Spanish Civil War and the Third Reich. While viewed in the collective imagination as 'Red Ellen', whose politics were as red as her hair, her ideas were not static and present a series of puzzles. This study deploys transnational and social movement theory perspectives to grapple with the complexity of her ideas and her relationship with the movements for social transformation. 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. Zusammenfassung Unearths new evidence to provide a richer understanding of the life of the Labour minister Ellen Wilkinson -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction1. Socialist ideas and movements2. Feminism and the Women's Movement3. The Trade Union Movement4. Against imperialism and war5. The commons and the parliamentary Labour Party6. A journey through the Crisis Years: the slump, travel and anti-Fascism7. 'The hope of the world': Spain in revolution and war, 1933-398. In government, 1940-47BibliographyIndex...

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• Authors: Matt Perry, Matt Perry, Perry Matt
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2014
• EAN: 9780719087202
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-8720-2
• No. of pages: 424
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; European History, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political, Biography: historical, political & military, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Affairs & Administration, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, c 1950 to c 1959, Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Biography: historical, political and military, Central / national / federal government, C 1945 To C 1960, Central government