{"product_id":"the-women-in-the-room-9781350340824","title":"The Women in the Room","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn February 1900 a group of men representing   trade unionists, socialists, Fabians and Marxists gathered in London to make   another attempt at establishing an organisation capable of getting   working-class men elected to Parliament. The body they set up was the Labour   Representation Committee; six years later when 29 of its candidates were   elected to the House of Commons, it changed its name to the Labour Party. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNo women took part in that first meeting, but   several watched from the public gallery. Amongst them was Isabella Ford, an   active socialist and trade unionist who would have been familiar to most of   the men assembled below. She had been asked by her friend, Millicent Fawcett,   to attend and report back on what happened. A few years later she   would become the first woman to speak at a Labour Party conference, moving a   resolution on votes for women but, at the Party's inception in 1900, she and   every other woman in the hall was silent.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA truly worthy, long-overdue and brilliantly written tribute to the women who helped drive the rise of British socialism. * New Statesman *\u003cbr\u003e[W]hen Sloane can muster sufficient detail to weld the personal to the political, her story is fascinating. ... Heartening as such stories may be, Sloane is also an unsparing chronicler who never glorifies her campaigners as a seamless sisterhood. * The Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003e[...] Sloane succeeds throughout in offering a fresh and engaging account of the complex of organizations, debates and initiatives that contributed to Labour politics in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. * TLS Reviews *\u003cbr\u003e[A] detailed history ... By 1918 some of the women who had worked with untiring commitment had died, others lived on to occupy high profile positions in the labour movement. Sloane’s account successfully repositions their efforts and achievements. * Socialist History *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction Acknowledgements One: Trade Unionists Two: Socialists Three: Foundations Four: ‘The Men’s Party’ Five: Women’s Work Six: Breakthrough Seven: Suffrage and Sweating Eight: Changes Nine: The Great Unrest Ten: War and Peace Epilogue Timeline The Women in the Room Organisations and Acronyms Bibliography Notes Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49407538168151,"sku":"9781350340824","price":13.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350340824.jpg?v=1730499709","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-women-in-the-room-9781350340824","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}