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LABOUR IN CRISIS: CLEMENT ATTLEE AND THE LABOUR PARTY IN OPPOSITION, 1931-1940

by John Swift

Published by Palgrave. 1st. 2001

Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper. An examination of how Labour, from being driven from office as unfit to govern, recovered to be seen as essential to the effective prosecution of the war, and how Attlee emerged from relative obscurity to become a central figure in the War Cabinet. Grey cloth boards, silver title to spine. ix and 209 pages including index.

A lovely copy. Dustwrapper is lightly scuffed to rear panel.

ISBN: 0333800877
Stock no. 1831217

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Contents

  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Abbreviations
  • 1 Coming to the Forefront, 1883-1931
  • Early Years
  • Early Political Career
  • The Downfall of the Government
  • 2 New Concerns: Attlee and the Depression, 1931-5
  • The policy debate
  • Parliamentary opposition
  • Progress made
  • 3 Old Concerns: India and Imperial Affairs, 1931-5
  • Labour and the Empire
  • India
  • Newfoundland
  • Attlee's developing views
  • 4 New Problems: Attlee and Defence and Foreign Policy, 1931-5
  • Labour's foreign policy in 1931
  • Disarmament
  • Collective security
  • The rise of Hitler
  • The pacifists
  • The Left
  • The 1935 Defence White Paper
  • Military affairs
  • The peace ballot
  • Abyssinia
  • The developments in Labour's foreign policy
  • 5 From Deputy Leader to Leader, 1931-5
  • Parliamentary leadership
  • Extra-parliamentary duties
  • Defending the PLP
  • Leadership style
  • The election campaign
  • The leadership ballot
  • 6 Attlee and the International Crises, 1935-40
  • Abyssinia
  • The Rhineland
  • Spain
  • Rearmament
  • The Far East
  • Austria
  • Appeasement
  • The Phoney War
  • Attlee and the foreign policy debate
  • 7 Imperial and Home Affairs, 1935-40
  • Imperial affairs
  • Economic issues
  • Modest successes
  • Controversies
  • Attlee's salary
  • The BUF
  • The Phoney War
  • Attlee's role in imperial and domestic affairs
  • 8 The Leader of the Opposition, 1935-40
  • Leading the PLP
  • The United and Popular Fronts
  • Election prospects
  • Leadership challenges
  • The downfall of Chamberlain
  • Conclusion
  • Leadership
  • Opposition
  • The war years
  • In Government
  • Reforming Labour?
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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