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Liberal Reform and Industrial Relations: J.H. Whitley (1866-1935), Halifax Radical and Speaker of the House of Commons book cover

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Liberal Reform and Industrial Relations: J.H. Whitley (1866-1935), Halifax Radical and Speaker of the House of Commons

Edited By John A. Hargreaves, Keith Laybourn, Richard Toye Copyright 2018
    232 Pages
    by Routledge

    234 Pages 2 Color & 14 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    232 Pages 2 Color & 14 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge
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    J.H. Whitley came from an established business family in Halifax, where he engaged in youth work and municipal politics before becoming MP for Halifax from 1900 to 1928. He was a Liberal Radical who worked with Labour, gave his name to the industrial councils of the First World War, was Speaker of the House of Commons 1921-28 presiding over the debates at the time of the General Strike of 1926. In 1929-31 he toured India as chairman of the Royal Commission on Indian Labour and was chairman of the BBC between 1930 and 1935.

    He was thus a vitally important political figure who was active at the rise of Labour and the decline of Liberalism, involved in the Liberal reforms of the Edwardian age, and deeply concerned about industrial relations in early twentieth century Britain and beyond. 　

    This volume brings together leading academics and provides new information and analysis on the life, work and times of J.H. Whitley, offering a study of his career in British politics and society, focusing particularly on the last decade of the nineteenth century and the first three decades of the twentieth century.

    1. Introduction

      2. John Hargreaves, Keith Laybourn, and Richard Toye

    2. J.H. Whitley (1866-1935): A Speaker shaped by his Halifax roots

      3. John Hargreaves

    3. Clifton: Inspiration and Service

      4. C. S. Knighton

    4. J.H. Whitley: A Model for Free Churchmen

      5. Clyde Binfield

    5. J.H. Whitley and Halifax Politics between 1890 and 1906: The Politics of Social Reform

      6. Keith Laybourn

    6. Industrial Relations and joint industrial councils: the UK and beyond 1916-1939

      7. Greg Patmore

    7. J.H. Whitley as Speaker of the House of Commons, 1921-1928

      8. Richard Toye

    8. J.H. Whitley and St. Stephen’s Hall in the Palace of Westminster

      9. Graham E. Seel

    9. J.H. Whitley and the Royal Commission on Labour in India 1929-1931

      10. Amerdeep Panesar, Amy Stoddard, James Turner, Paul Ward and Sarah Wells

    10. J.H. Whitley and the BBC 1930-1935

      11. David Hendy

    11. ‘Equal partners in a great enterprise’: experiencing Radio in Yorkshire

      12. in the time of J. H. Whitley

      Christine Verguson

    12. Self-government: J. H. Whitley’s worlds in context

      13. Keith Robbins

    13. J.H. Whitley ‘first draft of history’: a study of the obituaries and personal tributes

    John Barrett

    Biography

    John A. Hargreaves is an Associate of the Leeds Centre for Victorian Studies, and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a Fellow of the Historical Association and a Fellow of the Society of Anitiquaries. He has written extensively and co-edited Slavery in Yorkshire: Richard Oastler and the campaign against child labour in the Industrial Revolution (2012).

    Keith Laybourn is the Diamond Jubilee Professor of the University of Huddersfield, a prolific writer on British labour history, and both President and Secretary of the Society for the Study of Labour History. He co-authored Britain’s First Labour Government (2006, 2013) and has recently published The Battle for the Roads of Britain: Police, Motorists and the Law c. 1890-1970 (2015).

    Richard Toye is Professor of Modern History at the University of Exeter. He is widely published and his most recent book (co-written with Martin Thomas) is Arguing about Empire: Imperial Rhetoric in Britain and France, 1882-1956 (2017).

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