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'Red Ellen' Wilkinson
eBook - Her ideas, movements and world
ISBN/EAN: 9780719098482
Umbreit-Nr.: 2160317
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 424 S.
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Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 01.07.2015
Auflage: 1/2015
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Format: EPUB
DRM: Adobe DRM
- Zusatztext
- Unearthing new evidence to provide a richer understanding of her life, this study, now available in paperback, delves beyond the familiar image of Ellen Wilkinson on the Jarrow Crusade. From a humble background, she ascended to the rank of minister in the 1945 Labour government. Yet she was much more than a conventional Labour politician. She wrote journalism, political theory and novels. She was both a socialist and a feminist; at times, she described herself as a revolutionary. She experienced Soviet Russia, the Indian civil disobedience campaign, the Spanish Civil War and the Third Reich. This study deploys transnational and social movement theory perspectives to grapple with the complex itinerary of her ideas. Interest in Wilkinson remains strong among academic and non-academic audiences alike. This is in part because her principal concerns working-class representation, the status of women, capitalist crisis, war, anti-fascism remain central to contentious politics today.
- Kurztext
- Unearths new evidence to provide a richer understanding of the life of the Labour minister Ellen Wilkinson
- Autorenportrait
- Matt Perry is Reader in LabourHistory at Newcastle University