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Social-Imperialism in Britain: The Lancashire Working Class and Two World Wars

Social-Imperialism in Britain: The Lancashire Working Class and Two World Wars

Redfern, Neil

Paperback

Series: Historical Materialism

EconomicsBritish HistorySocial Movements

ISBN10: 1642590495
ISBN13: 9781642590494
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Published: Mar 24 2020
Pages: 268
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.90 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

In Social-Imperialism in Britain Neil Redfern examines the relationship between British labour and British capital in the two world wars of the twentieth century. He argues that the Second World War, the so-called 'People's War, ' was an imperialist war no less than the First. He further argues that in both wars labour and capital entered into a social-imperialist contract in which labour would be rewarded for its support for war with such social and political reforms as votes for women and a health service, culminating in the 'welfare state' constructed after the Second World War. Concentrating on Lancashire, he examines the complex interaction between military successes and reverses, elite war aims, labour unrest and popular demands for reform.

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