For Class and Country

David Swift completed his PhD in 2014 and currently teaches history atQueen Mary, University of London.

• List of Tables and GraphsList of IllustrationsAbbreviationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction1 ‘If this is to be a jingo, then I am a jingo’ – Labour Patriotism before 19142 ‘I’d sooner blackleg my union than blackleg my country’ – Labour Patriotism, 1914–18August 1914The Workers’ National Committee and Labour Support for the WarWho Were the Labour Patriots?Workers and Trade UnionsAnti-GermanismLabour Heroes3 ‘Middle-class peace men?’– Labour and the Anti-War AgitationConscription, 1916–18Wartime Strikes, 1915–18The Anti-War Movement, 1915–18The Leeds and Stockholm Conferences4 ‘Our Platform is Broad Enough and our Movement Big Enough’ – The War and Recruits to LabourThe Conversion of Liberal and Conservative ElitesLabour, Soldiers, and Ex-ServicemenThe War and the Appeal to the New Electorate5 ‘The experiments are not found wanting’ – Labour and the Wartime StateThe Wartime Growth of the British StateLabour and the Workers during the WarThe Impact of the War on the Relationship between the British Left and the State6 ‘The greatest democratic force British politics have known’ – Labour Cohesion and the WarThe Trade Unions and the Labour PartyLabour and Women’s OrganisationsThe Co-operative Movement and LabourSocialist Societies and the Labour PartyThe Rise and Decline of the Ultra-PatriotsConclusionBibliographyIndex

Reviews'The first substantial text to concentrate on the importance of the patriotic dimension to the political beliefs of labour leaders, members of parliament, and a variety of ethical socialists and Marxists, thereby filling an important gap in the historiography of the British labour movement by exploring the relationship between socialists and patriotism during the Great War.'Keith Gildart, University of Wolverhampton