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Title

Labour's lost leader : the life and politics of Will Crooks / Paul Tyler.

Author

Tyler, Paul.

Publication

London ; New York : Tauris Academic Studies ; New York : In the United States of America and Canada distributed by Palgrave macmillan, 2007.

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Description

xi, 283 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

Will Crooks was a member of the Coopers' Union for 55 years, and a pioneer of the trade union and Labour movement for over 30. This work presents a political biography of a Labour figure, and an important reinterpretation of the early trade union and labour movement from the 1880s to the 1920s.

Series Statement

International library of political studies ; 12

Uniform Title

International library of political studies 12.

Subject

• Crooks, Will, 1852-1921
• Labour Party Neuseeland
• Labour Party Großbritannien
• Geschichte 1903-1991
• Geschichte 1903-1991
• Labor union members > Great Britain > Biography

Genre/Form

Biographies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-272) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Pt. 1. Local activist and labour pioneer 1852-1907 -- 1. Will Crooks of Poplar -- 2. Guardian of the poor -- 3. Unemployment and the Poor Law -- 4. Woolwich and independent Labour representation -- Pt. 2. Labour pioneer and member of Parliament 1903-1921 -- 5. Member for Woolwich -- 6. Role in Parliament and the general elections of 1910 -- 7. Returns to the Parliamentary fray -- 8. War and peace.

ISBN

• 1845111680 (hbk.)
• 9781845111687 (hbk.)

OCLC

• 70128464
• SCSB-11228418

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library