Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political ideologies > Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies
|
Buy Now
My Life's Battles (Paperback)
Loot Price: R393
Discovery Miles 3 930
|
|
My Life's Battles (Paperback)
(sign in to rate)
Loot Price R393
Discovery Miles 3 930
Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days
|
Donate to Gift Of The Givers
Total price: R413
Discovery Miles: 4 130
|
My Life's Battles is one of the first true working-class
autobiographies, the story of Will Thorne, who helped to make a
better world for ordinary people. Thorne's life story is a journey
from tenements and factories to the corridors of power and the
barricades of the Russian Revolution. Thorne began his working life
as a six-year-old child labourer. His politics were shaped by his
adventures with the tramping navvies, and forged among the roaring
furnaces of the Beckton Gasworks in East London. As a semi-skilled
industrial labourer, he founded the Gasworkers' Union, campaigned
on behalf of the unemployed and fighting for the Eight Hour Day.
Eleanor Marx helped him learn to read and write. He eventually
became the General Secretary of the General and Municipal Workers
union, and was an East London MP for forty years. Along the way,
Thorne experienced the street fights and bitter strikes that
represented the struggles of British Socialism and that gave rise
to the Labour Movement. He oversaw the development of these battles
into the creation of the Welfare State. Thorne's is a story of
success, and one for celebration, but it is most importantly about
one individual's achievements for the many, rather than for his own
worldly gain. Sometimes fact is more fantastical - and liberating -
than fiction.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
You might also like..
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.