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Book SynopsisNew and original assessment of the second Labour government 1929-31 with up to date analyses of its policies and politics. -- .
Trade Review"As well as containing an excellent and extensive literature review of labour's history around the period 1929-31, the book offers a stimulating and energetic re-examination of a period in Labour's history that has been well-documented and no doubt will continue to be so."
(William Stallard, Political Studies Review, May 2014)
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Table of Contents1. Introduction - John Shepherd and Jonathan Davis
2. The 1929 election reconsidered - Andrew Thorpe
3. Labour dealing with Labour: aspects of economic policy - Chris Wrigley
4. Why was there no Keynesian revolution under the Second Labour government? Reassessing Sir Oswald Mosley’s alternative economic agenda - Daniel Ritschel
5. The ‘Loyal Lump’: The Parliamentary Labour Party during the second Labour government - Robert Taylor
6. The Independent Labour Party and the second Labour government 1929-1931: the move
towards revolutionary change - Keith Laybourn
7. The second Labour government and the consumer - Nicole Robertson
8. The end of free trade: agricultural crisis and the politics of the national interest - Clare Griffiths
9. Labour and the Kremlin - Jonathan Davis
10. ‘Bolshevism Run Mad’: Labour and socialism in 1931 - John Callaghan
11. The right looks left. The ‘Young Tory’ response to the 1929-31 Labour government - Richard Carr
12. Remembering 1931: an invention of tradition - David Howell
13. Conclusion - Chris Wrigley
