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dc.contributor.authorThorpe, Andrewen_GB
dc.contributor.departmentUniversity of Exeteren_GB
dc.date.accessioned2008-03-17T10:29:08Zen_GB
dc.date.accessioned2011-01-25T10:52:38Zen_GB
dc.date.accessioned2013-03-20T14:15:08Z
dc.date.issued2005-04-19en_GB
dc.description.abstractThis chapter offers a reappraisal of Labour in the South West. It focuses on the extent of Labour's weakness, explains the reasons for it, and identifies the effects that this weakness had on the outlook of party and its activists down to, and arguably beyond, 1945. In order to understand the nature of Labour politics in the South West, it is necessary first to appreciate very difficult conditions in which the region's Labourites had to operate in the period. The party conference reports of early 1920s made frequent references to 'difficult circumstances' that faced J. H. Edwards, Annie Townley and Clem Jones in their 'arduous work' in what was variously described as 'one of the most difficult areas of the country' or 'one of the most backward areas of the country'. The National Union of Railwaymen played a significant role, not least at Exeter, where it had a substantial membership and where it sponsored the Labour candidate at 1945 general election.
dc.identifier.citationIn: Labour's Grass Roots - Essays on the Activities of Local Labour Parties and Members, 1918-45, edited By Matthew Worley, pp. 216 - 239en_GB
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.4324/9781351154369-11
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10036/20873en_GB
dc.language.isoenen_GB
dc.publisherAshgateen_GB
dc.subjectLabour Partyen_GB
dc.subjectSouth Westen_GB
dc.subjectEnglanden_GB
dc.subjectCornwallen_GB
dc.subjectDevonen_GB
dc.subjectDorseten_GB
dc.subjectSomerseten_GB
dc.title'One of the most backward areas of the country': the Labour Party's grass roots in the South-West of England, 1918-45en_GB
dc.typeBook chapteren_GB
dc.date.available2008-03-17T10:29:08Zen_GB
dc.date.available2011-01-25T10:52:38Zen_GB
dc.date.available2013-03-20T14:15:08Z
dc.identifier.isbn9780754640073en_GB


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