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Informationen zum Autor Paul F. Tyler is Postdoctoral Fellow at the Working Lives Research Institute! London Metropolitan University. Klappentext The significant and sometimes controversial figure! Will Crooks! who became the Chairman of the Popular Board of Guardians and a leading pioneer of the trade union and labour movement! has been overlooked by modern historians. Here Paul Tyler presents a groundbreaking political biography of a significant Labour figure at both a local and national level and an important reinterpretation of the early trade union and labour movement from the 1880s to the 1920s. Will Crooks was a member of the Coopers' Union for fifty-five years, and a pioneer of the trade union and Labour movement for over thirty. This work presents a political biography of a Labour figure, at both a local and national level, and an important reinterpretation of the early trade union and labour movement from the 1880s to the 1920s. Zusammenfassung The life story of Will Crooks has a Dickensian resonance. As a working class child, born into abject poverty, he experienced the rigours of Poplar Workhouse and Poor Law school. Nearly forty years later, Crooks became Chairman of the Poplar Board of Guardians, the very board that had given him shelter during his challenging early years. Crooks was a member of the Coopers' Union for fifty-five years, and a leading pioneer of the trade union and Labour movement for over thirty. This significant, and sometimes controversial, figure has been overlooked by modern historians. Here Paul Tyler presents a pioneering political biography of a significant Labour figure, at both a local and national level, and an important reinterpretation of the early trade union and labour movement from the 1880s to the 1920s. Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIntroductionPart One: Local Activist and Labour Pioneer 1852-1907Will Crooks of PoplarGuardian of the PoorUnemployment and the Poor LawWoolwich and independent Labour representationPart Two: Labour Pioneer and Member of Parliament 1903-19215 Member for Woolwich6 Role in Parliament and the General Elections of 19107 Returns to the Parliamentary Fray8 War and PeaceReferences and NotesBibliographyIndex...
