A Radical Lawyer in Victorian England

A Radical Lawyer in Victorian England

Raymond Challinor

52,07 €
IVA incluido
Disponible
Editorial:
Bloomsbury USA 3PL
Año de edición:
2021
ISBN:
9781350186552
52,07 €
IVA incluido
Disponible
Añadir a favoritos

’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.

Artículos relacionados

Otros libros del autor

  • The Origins of British Bolshevism
    Raymond Challinor
    First published in 1977. This book describes the growth of revolutionary organisations in Britain from 1900 onwards. The study concentrates the activities of the Socialist Labour Party whose impact on working-class politics had not been fully recognised. This title will be of great interest to students of politics, philosophy, and history. ...
    Disponible

    59,47 €

  • The Origins of British Bolshevism
    Raymond Challinor
    First published in 1977. This book describes the growth of revolutionary organisations in Britain from 1900 onwards. The study concentrates the activities of the Socialist Labour Party whose impact on working-class politics had not been fully recognised. This title will be of great interest to students of politics, philosophy, and history. ...
    Disponible

    186,67 €