Labour and working-class lives

Reflective comments by Professor Peter Hennessy Foreword: a personal reflection from Professor Margaret Walsh 1. Introduction - Keith Laybourn and John Shepherd 2. George Howell, the Webbs and the political culture of early labour history - Malcolm Chase 3. The appointment of Herbert Gladstone as chief Liberal whip in 1899 - Ken Brown 4. A question of neutrality? The politics of cooperation in North-east England, 1881-1926 - Joan Allen 5. Transforming the unemployed: trade union benefits and the advent of state policy - Noel Whiteside 6. The trade union contribution to the British Labour Party - Andrew Thorpe 7. The disaffiliation crisis of 1932: the Labour Party, the Independent Labour Party and the opinion of ILP members - Keith Laybourn 8. Voices in the wilderness? The Progressive League and the quest for sexual reform in British politics 1932-1959 - Janet Shepherd 9. Working-class culture in Britain and Germany 1870-1914: a comparison - Dick Geary 10. Women at work: activism, feminism and the rise of the female office worker during the First World War and its immediate aftermath - Nicole Robertson 11. 'We never trained our children to be socialists': the next Lansbury generation and Labour politics 1881-1955 - John Shepherd 12. Comrades in bondage trousers: how the Communist Party of Great Britain discovered Punk Rock - Matthew Worley 13. Must Labour lose? Lessons from post-war history - Kevin Jefferys A select list of the publications of Chris Wrigley Index