Patriotic labour in England in the era of the Great War

这个项目“伟大战争时代英国的爱国劳工”将探索和分析工人阶级及其代表组织对战争的支持。在战争爆发后的十年内，工党组建了一个政府，标志着现代英国政治的根本变化。在1914年之前，工党的策略（得到其劳工运动盟友的支持）是基于局部的阶级利益和抗议，而不是对政府的现实希望。然而，到1924年，它是选举。随着战后普遍的幻灭，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。这延伸到第一次世界大战时期的劳工史学，主要关注工人运动的抗议和反战活动;良心拒服兵役者、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、工人运动和工党都以爱国的方式支持战争。这方面的文献很少，尤其是近年来。这项关于爱国主义如何促成工党决定性突破的研究将解决这一重大不平衡问题，并代表了战争百年纪念前夕的一个重要叙事。学生将使用劳动历史档案和研究中心（LHASC）的资源和技能在人民历史博物馆（PHM），与中央兰开夏历史学家合作。LHASC的工党档案包含大量未充分研究的战争紧急工人全国委员会文件，这些文件将与其他工党文件一起沿着成为研究来源的核心。这些将由西北部和全国的其他主要储存库补充。一个独特的合格的团队已经组装，以支持学生，并使他或她的输出范围内的巨大的公共历史庆祝活动，这将标志着在2014年的大战爆发的百年纪念的背景下广泛提供。凭借博物馆和大学定期会议监督团队的专业知识，学生将对档案进行拖网，以决定如何最好地解决一些关键研究问题。这些将涉及：- 劳工运动对志愿招募的贡献，这将是第一次研究-战时公司国家中劳工运动的作用调查-爱国主义对战后劳工运动普通活动家动机的影响分析-工人阶级爱国主义在战后时期工党在高级政治中的选举中的影响。这个过程将引导学生和监督团队进入一个坚定的方向，为最终论文的明确目标。中央兰开夏和PHM之间的伙伴关系是坚定的和长期建立的，最近任命前博物馆馆长为大学的高级研究员是增加合作的价值，这是第一次联合CDA投标。PHM最近进行了1250万英镑的翻新，将在伟大战争一百周年的巨大公共历史计划中发挥积极作用，学生和监督团队将为此做出贡献。该伙伴关系的贡献将是在2012年的区域和大战，这将在2014年出版论文会议;博物馆展览，与画廊会谈和档案显示在同一年;和一个联合公共历史会议与中央兰开夏的大力支持地方和家族史研究所。

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.