Labour and the Caucus: Working-Class Radicalism and Organised Liberalism in England, 1868-1888

by James Owen

Book Overview

Labour and the Caucus provides a new, innovative pre-history of the Labour party. In the two decades following the Second Reform Act there was a sustained and concerted campaign for working-class parliamentary representation from a range of labour organisations to an extent that was hitherto unseen in British political history. The franchise revolution of 1867 and the controversial introduction of more sophisticated forms of electoral machinery, which...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1802078223
• ISBN13: 9781802078220
• Release Date: February 2023
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 255 Pages