Intro; Title Page; Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; Entry; 1: Landmarks; Part I; 2: Organization and Culture; 3: Ambitions and Traditions; 4: Party Structures and Strategies; 5: Understanding Party Loyalism; Part II; 6: The Political and the Industrial; 7: The Miners: Institutions and Styles; 8: Federation Factionalism; 9: Coal Crises and Labour Governments; 10: The Discreet Limits of Loyalism; 11: Bevin's Union: Loyalism and Iconoclasm; 12: The Special Relationship; 13: Conflict and Negotiation; Part III; 14: Identities; 15: The Independent Labour Party
16: Socialist Think Tank17: Socialism in Our Time; 18: Socialist Conscience; 19: Progressive Varieties; 20: Constructing Labour Woman; 21: Contesting Woman's Place; 22: Excluding Communists; 23: Clarifications; 24: Contests and Contingencies; Exit; Appendix 1. Trade Union Affiliations to the Labour Party Conference; Appendix 2. Commons Defectors 1931; Bibliography; Index
Summary
This study offers a detailed analysis of Labour in the 1920s, based on a wide variety of unpublished sources. The emphasis is on the variety of personalities within the party, demonstrating how disputes over identity made a crucial contribution to the 1931 crisis
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 425-438) and index
