The Spanish Civil War and the British labour movement:

This book draws on a mass of documentary material to provide a major reinterpretation of British labour's response to the Spanish Civil War. It challenges the view that the labour leadership ' betrayed' the Spanish Republic, and that this polarised the movement along 'left'...

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Main Author: Buchanan, Tom 1960- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1991
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Links:https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511896149
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511896149
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511896149
Summary:This book draws on a mass of documentary material to provide a major reinterpretation of British labour's response to the Spanish Civil War. It challenges the view that the labour leadership ' betrayed' the Spanish Republic, and that this polarised the movement along 'left' versus 'right' lines. Instead, it argues that the overriding concern of the major leaders was to defend labour's institutional interests against the political destabilisation caused by the conflict, rather than to defend Spanish democracy. Although the main advocates of this position were trade union leaders associated with the labour right such as Walter Citrine and Ernest Bevin, the book argues that their dominance reflected the centrality of the trade unions to labour movement decision-making rather than the abuse of union power to achieve political goals
Item Description:Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Physical Description:1 online resource (xvii, 250 pages)
ISBN:9780511896149
DOI:10.1017/CBO9780511896149

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