Patriotic labour in England in the era of the Great War

第一次世界大战时期英国的爱国劳动

• 批准号: AH/I024712/1
• 负责人: Nicholas Mansfield
• 金额: $ 6.91万
• 依托单位: University of Central Lancashire
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Training Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2012 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FI024712%2F1
• 关键词: Patriotic; labour; England; era; Great

This project 'Patriotic labour in England in the era of the Great War' will explore and analyse the support for war amongst working-class people and their representative organisations. Within ten years of the outbreak of the war, the Labour Party had formed a government, marking a change which is still fundamental to modern British politics. Before 1914 the Labour Party's strategy (supported by its labour movement allies) was based on sectional class interests and protests rather than realistic hopes for government. Yet, by 1924, it was electable. With widespread postwar disillusionment, the labour movement was often embarrassed by its patriotism and the importance of this was forgotten or ignored. This extended into the labour historiography of the Great War period, which mainly focused on the labour movement's protest and anti-war activities; conscientious objectors, the shop stewards' movement, and responses to the Russian Revolution. Yet the vast majority of the working class, the labour movement and the Labour Party supported the war effort in patriotic way. This has generated little literature, especially so in recent years. This study of how patriotism contributed to Labour's decisive breakthrough will address this major imbalance and represent an important narrative on the verge of the war's centenary. The student will use the resources and skills of the Labour History Archive and Study Centre (LHASC) within the People's History Museum (PHM), in partnership with historians at UCLan. The Labour Party archive at the LHASC contains the huge and considerably understudied War Emergency Workers' National Committee papers, which will form the core of the research source, along with other Labour Party papers. These will be complemented by other key repositories in the North West and nationally. A uniquely qualified team has been assembled to support the student, and to make his or her outputs widely available within the context of the huge public history celebration which will mark the centenary of the outbreak of the Great War in 2014. With the expert knowledge of the supervision team within the museum and the university meeting regularly, the student will undertake a trawl of the archives, with a view to deciding how the sources can best address a number of key research questions. These will relate to: -The labour movement's contribution to voluntary recruiting, which will be studied for the first time-A survey of the role of labour movement in wartime corporate state -An analysis of the impact of patriotism on labour movement rank and file activists' motivation in the postwar period -The impact of working-class patriotism in making the Labour Party electable in the high politics of the postwar period. This process will steer the student and the supervision team into a firm direction with clear objectives for the final thesis. The partnership between UCLan and the PHM is firm and long established and the recent appointment of the previous museum Director as Senior Research Fellow at the university is adding value to the collaboration, with this first joint CDA bid. The PHM, having recently undergone a £12.5m refurbishment, will play an active part in the huge public history programme for the centenary of the Great War to which the student and supervision team will contribute. The partnership's contribution will be a conference on Regions and Great War in 2012, which will publish papers in 2014; a museum exhibition, with gallery talks and an archive display in the same year; and a joint public history conference with UCLan's well supported Institute of Local and Family History.

这个名为“第一次世界大战时期英国的爱国劳工”的项目将探索和分析工人阶级及其代表组织对战争的支持。在战争爆发的十年内，工党组建了政府，标志着这一变化仍然是现代英国政治的根本。1914年之前，工党的战略(得到其劳工运动盟友的支持)是基于派别阶级利益和抗议活动，而不是对政府的现实希望。然而，到1924年，它是可以当选的。随着战后普遍的幻想破灭，工人运动经常因其爱国主义而感到尴尬，这一点的重要性被遗忘或忽视。这延伸到了第一次世界大战时期的劳工史学，主要集中在工人运动的抗议和反战活动；依良心拒服兵役的人，商店管理员运动，以及对俄罗斯革命的反应。然而，绝大多数工人阶级、工人运动和工党以爱国的方式支持战争。这几乎没有产生什么文献，尤其是在最近几年。这项关于爱国主义如何推动工党取得决定性突破的研究将解决这一重大失衡问题，并代表着一场即将到来的百年战争的重要叙事。学生将与UCLan的历史学家合作，使用人民历史博物馆(PHM)内的劳动历史档案和研究中心(LHASC)的资源和技能。LHASC的工党档案包含大量和相当少被研究的战争紧急情况工人全国委员会文件，这些文件将与工党的其他文件一起构成研究来源的核心。这些储存库将得到西北和全国其他主要储存库的补充。已经组建了一支资质独特的团队来支持这名学生，并在2014年第一次世界大战爆发一百周年的大型公共历史庆祝活动的背景下，广泛提供他或她的成果。凭借博物馆内部监督小组的专业知识和定期召开的大学会议，学生将对档案进行一次调查，以期确定来源如何最好地解决一些关键的研究问题。这些将涉及：-工人运动对自愿招募的贡献，这将是第一次研究--关于工人运动在战时企业国家中的作用的调查--分析爱国主义对战后工人运动普通积极分子动机的影响--工人阶级爱国主义在战后高级政治中使工党能够当选的影响。这一过程将引导学生和指导小组朝着坚定的方向前进，并为最终论文设定明确的目标。UCLan和PHM之间的伙伴关系是坚定和长期建立的，最近任命前博物馆馆长为大学高级研究员，这是CDA首次联合竞标，为合作增加了价值。PHM最近经历了1250万GB的翻新，将在一战百年纪念的大型公共历史项目中发挥积极作用，学生和监督团队将为此做出贡献。这一伙伴关系的贡献将是2012年举行的关于地区和世界大战的会议，该会议将在2014年发表论文；博物馆展览，同年将举行画廊演讲和档案展示；以及与UCLan得到很好支持的地方和家族史研究所举行的联合公共历史会议。