9780853239444 - The Lancashire Giant: David Shackleton, Labour Leader and Civil Servant de Martin, Ross L. (5 resultados)

Paperback. Condición: Good. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.

Soft cover. Condición: Good. Small creasing at top of back. Fading on spine. Historian of TUC explores career of Labour leader and MP in the Edwardian period and then a civil servant from 1910, involved in deliberations of Lloyd George's War Cabinet. Illustrations. 222 pages. Quoted postage for UK 2nd class. Overseas at least £6.60.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. The Lancashire Giant tells the story of a nine-year-old cotton weaver who went on to carve out two extraordinary careers for himself. In the first, David Shackleton became a truly dominating presence in the Edwardian trade union movement, was the third MP to be elected under the banner of the Labour party, and played a critical role in the infancy of the party. His second career, begun at Winston Churchills prompting in 1910, took him to the summit of the British civil service and to active participation in the deliberations of Lloyd Georges War Cabinet. Prominent union officials have frequently become government ministers, but none has repeated Shackletons achievement in becoming the permanent secretary of a ministry. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. Lightly dulled spine. Spine not creased. 235 x 155 mm. xvi, 228 pp + 28 pages of b&w illustrations. A biography of Rossendale-born David Shackleton, Edwardian trade unionist, early Labour MP and senior civil servant. Includes bibliographical references and index. Book.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. 222pp Started work aged nine as a cotton weaver, he became a local leader of the Textile Factory Workers' Association in East Lancashire. He won a crucial by-election in Clitheroe in 1902 representing the Labour Representation Committee (he was seen as the trade union candidate by the ILP and SDF who reluctantly supported him) thus becoming the third elected Labour MP. In 1910 he became a Senior Labour Advisor at the Home Office.