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Anatomy of Reformism: The Social and Political Ideas of the Labour Leadership in Yorkshire

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Critiques of the history of British Socialism tend to begin with the assumption that the Labour movement preferred evolution to revolution, reform to fundamental change. The local Labour leadership is alleged to have responded to the difficulties of radical politics between 1880 and 1920 by tamely following a policy of tactical moderation devised in London by the Parliamentary front bench.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis 1973

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