List of Tables and Graphs
List of Illustrations
Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 ‘If this is to be a jingo, then I am a jingo’ – Labour
Patriotism before 1914
2 ‘I’d sooner blackleg my union than blackleg my country’ –
Labour Patriotism, 1914–18
August 1914
The Workers’ National Committee and Labour Support for the War
Who Were the Labour Patriots?
Workers and Trade Unions
Anti-Germanism
Labour Heroes
3 ‘Middle-class peace men?’– Labour and the Anti-War
Agitation
Conscription, 1916–18
Wartime Strikes, 1915–18
The Anti-War Movement, 1915–18
The Leeds and Stockholm Conferences
4 ‘Our Platform is Broad Enough and our Movement Big Enough’ –
The War and Recruits to Labour
The Conversion of Liberal and Conservative Elites
Labour, Soldiers, and Ex-Servicemen
The War and the Appeal to the New Electorate
5 ‘The experiments are not found wanting’ – Labour and the
Wartime State
The Wartime Growth of the British State
Labour and the Workers during the War
The Impact of the War on the Relationship between the British Left
and the State
6 ‘The greatest democratic force British politics have known’ –
Labour Cohesion and the War
The Trade Unions and the Labour Party
Labour and Women’s Organisations
The Co-operative Movement and Labour
Socialist Societies and the Labour Party
The Rise and Decline of the Ultra-Patriots
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
David Swift completed his PhD in 2014 and currently teaches history at Queen Mary, University of London.
"The first substantial text to concentrate on the importance of the patriotic dimension to the political beliefs of labour leaders, members of parliament, and a variety of ethical socialists and Marxists, thereby filling an important gap in the historiography of the British labour movement by exploring the relationship between socialists and patriotism during the Great War."
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