Labour's Lost Leader
The Life and Politics of Will Crooks
1st Edition
Published on 29. June 2007
296 pages
978-0-85771-417-6 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN-13
978-0-85771-417-6 (9780857714176)
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Content
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
Part One: Local Activist and Labour Pioneer 1852-1907
Will Crooks of Poplar
Guardian of the Poor
Unemployment and the Poor Law
Woolwich and independent Labour representation
Part Two: 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
References and Notes
Bibliography
Index
Abbreviations
Introduction
Part One: Local Activist and Labour Pioneer 1852-1907
Will Crooks of Poplar
Guardian of the Poor
Unemployment and the Poor Law
Woolwich and independent Labour representation
Part Two: 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
References and Notes
Bibliography
Index
