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Labor Unrest in England, 1910–1914

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 February 2011

Ronald V. Sires
Ronald V. Sires
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Whitman College
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During the last four years before the outbreak of war in 1914 the people of England experienced an unprecedented combination of political strife and labor unrest. The struggle over the budget of 1909 had led to a constitutional crisis over the powers of the House of Lords in 1910–1911; suffragettes were resorting to obstructive and exasperating tactics to win the vote for women; the question of home rule almost resulted in civil war in North Ireland and brought what amounted to a threat of dereliction of duty by high military officers, who could not contemplate the use of force against the opponents of home rule; while the restlessness of labor brought a series of massive strikes in which the rank and file of workers often broke from the discipline of their leaders.

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The Journal of Economic History , Volume 15 , Issue 3 , September 1955 , pp. 246 - 266
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Copyright © The Economic History Association 1955

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