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A Radical Lawyer in Victorian England: W.P.Roberts and the Struggle for Workers' Rights

Autor Raymond Challinor
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 27 ian 2021
'The name of Roberts became a terror to the mineowners ... such was the dread of this 'lightning attorney general', who seemed to be everywhere at once' - Friedrich EngeIs, The Condition of the Working Classes.W. P Roberts (1806-1871) was a founder and leading member of the Chartist movement. He was the first lawyer to campaign on behalf of labour, and to use the judicial system to defend workers' rights. His efforts on behalf of the miners earned him the title 'the miners' attorney'. In the 1840s and 1850s his fame throughout the north of England made him the subject of popular ballads. Though he was never a socialist, he acted as solicitor to Marx and Engels.In addition to providing a splendid portrait of W. P Roberts, this book casts new light on the position of working people in Victorian society, on the development of trade unions, on Chartism and the co-operative movement, and on industrial law. It deals in detail with the Victorian authorities' extraordinary efforts to control social unrest - the use of agents provocateurs, police informers, and manipulation of the judicial process. It also covers the beginnings of Irish terrorism in the Manchester Martyrs and Clerkenwell Explosion cases, as well as the creation of a legal framework to deal with it.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781350186552
ISBN-10: 1350186554
Pagini: 311
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.44 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Raymond Challinor is Chairman of the Society for the Study of Labour History. A former principal lecturer in history at Newcastle Polytechnic, he is the author of several previous books and articles, including The Origins of British Bolshevism and John S. Clarke: Parliamentarian, Poet and Lion Tamer.

Cuprins

The making of a chartist; the rise of physical force toryism; the road to Newport; the years of uncertainty; the General Strike; the Victorian working class and the law; the battle against the bond; on the eve of battle; the Big Strike; uncle Bobby in Lancashire; politics, parliamentary and revolutionary; mid-century malaise; the collapse of chartism; back to the coalfields; the Manchester martyrs; the final tragedy and the ultimate triumph; the people's attorney - a critical appraisal.