The Political Activities Of A Trade Union, 1906–1914
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9969493 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J E Williams (0000-0001-5816-0216, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1957 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-21 |
| Publication date | 1957-04-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Review of Social History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-8590 • E-ISSN: 1469-512X |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0020859000000808 |
| OpenAlex | W2148403692 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 3 |
The British Labour Party was not explicitly socialist until 1918. In February of that year a Special Conference adopted a new constitution which stated that the ultimate aim of the party was:- “To secure for the producers by hand or by brain the full fruits of their industry, and the most equitable distribution thereof that may be possible, upon the basis of common ownership of the means of production and the best obtainable system of popular administration and control of each industry or service.” Before this change, Ramsay MacDonald, writing in 1911, had said: “The Labour Party is not Socialist. It is a union of Socialist and trade-union bodies for immediate political work...” The new party, founded in 1900 as the Labour Representation Committee, was in many ways un manage de convenance of militant Socialists and Glad-stonian Liberal trade-union leaders. The “immediate political work” for which these groups came together was the representation of the working class in parliament. Of the need for such representation both sides were firmly convinced: the Socialists because they hoped to convert the trade unions to their own way of thinking; the trade-union leaders because they were disappointed by the failure of the official Liberal party constituency caucuses to adopt more working-class candidates
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| Citations per year | 0.06 |
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| Citation span | 2010 - 2010 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |