This is a study of the development of Clement Attlee and the Labour Party from the collapse of the second Labour Government in August 1931, to their entry into Churchill's coalition in May 1940. It is an examination of how Labour, from being driven from office as unfit to govern, recovered to be seen as essential to the effective prosecution of the war, and how Attlee emerged from relative obscurity to become a central figure in the War Cabinet.

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"...an interesting and positive study." - Jerry H. Brookshire, Albion

"...it has been well researched and provides useful summaries of Attlee's work and Labor Party policies." - History: Reviews of New Books

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St Martin’s College, Lancaster, UK

John Swift

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JOHN SWIFT is a Lecturer in History at Lancaster University, St Martin's College. He is the author or Peter the Great, and, with John Heywood and Simon Hall, Cassell's Atlas of the Early Modern World.

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Book Title: Labour in Crisis
Book Subtitle: Clement Attlee and the Labour Party in Opposition, 1931-40
Authors: John Swift
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230599802
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2001
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-59980-2Published: 04 May 2001
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 209
Topics: Political Science, History of Britain and Ireland, Modern History, History of World War II and the Holocaust, Political History

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