Labour and the Countryside
The Politics of Rural Britain 1918-1939
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 10 May 2007
- ISBN 9780199287437
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages432 pages
- Size 220x140x30 mm
- Weight 690 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 10 halftones 0
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Short description:
Drawing on new research, this book uncovers a fascinating but previously neglected chapter in the history of the Labour Party. As Labour was becoming a national force at the end of the First World War, many people believed that the party would be unable to form a majority government unless it won support in the countryside. During the 1920s and 30s, Labour embarked on a series of campaigns to take the message of socialism to the farms and villages. Labour and the Countryside re-examines common perceptions of an antagonism between Labour policies and rural Britain in a timely and illuminating study of politics and culture in the early twentieth century.
MoreLong description:
The common reputation of the British Labour Party has always been as 'a thing of the town', an essentially urban phenomenon which has failed to engage with the rural electorate or identify itself with rural issues. Yet during the inter-war years, Labour viewed the countryside as a crucial electoral battleground - even claiming that the party could never form a majority administration without winning a significant number of seats across rural Britain. Committing itself to a series of campaigns in rural areas during the 1920s and 30s, Labour developed a rural and often specifically agricultural programme on which to attract new support and members. Labour and the Countryside takes this forgotten chapter in the party's history as a starting point for a fascinating and wide-ranging re-examination of the relationship between the British Left and rural Britain.
The first account of this aspect of Labour's history, this book draws on extensive research across a wide variety of original source material, from local party minutes and trade union archives to the records of Labour's first two periods in government. Historical, literary, and visual representations of the countryside are also examined, along with newspapers, magazines, and propaganda materials. In reconstructing the contexts within which Labour attempted to redefine itself as a voice for the countryside, the resulting study presents a fresh perspective on the political history of the inter-war years.
[an] impressively scholarly, deeply researched and original book
Table of Contents:
Introduction: an electoral problem
POLITICAL LANDSCAPES
Dispossession: rural histories on the Left
Voters in a landscape
Rural idylls
THE RURAL LABOUR MOVEMENT
Campaigning in the countryside
The rural Labour parties
Trade unionism in rural areas
PLANNING THE FUTURE
Policies for agriculture
Labour and the farmers
A land for the people
Conclusion: reclaiming the ground?
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