Second Labour Government

John Shepherd is Visiting Professor in Modern British History at the University of Huddersfield. Jonathan Davis is Principal Lecturer in Russian and Modern European History at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge. Chris Wrigley is Professor of Modern British History at the University of Nottingham.

• 1. Introduction - John Shepherd and Jonathan Davis2. The 1929 election reconsidered - Andrew Thorpe3. Labour dealing with Labour: aspects of economic policy - Chris Wrigley4. Why was there no Keynesian revolution under the Second Labour government? Reassessing Sir Oswald Mosley’s alternative economic agenda - Daniel Ritschel5. The ‘Loyal Lump’: The Parliamentary Labour Party during the second Labour government - Robert Taylor 6. The Independent Labour Party and the second Labour government 1929-1931: the movetowards revolutionary change - Keith Laybourn 7. The second Labour government and the consumer - Nicole Robertson8. The end of free trade: agricultural crisis and the politics of the national interest - Clare Griffiths9. Labour and the Kremlin - Jonathan Davis10. ‘Bolshevism Run Mad’: Labour and socialism in 1931 - John Callaghan11. The right looks left. The ‘Young Tory’ response to the 1929-31 Labour government - Richard Carr12. Remembering 1931: an invention of tradition - David Howell13. Conclusion - Chris Wrigley

"As well as containing an excellent and extensive literature review of labour's history around the period 1929-31, the book offers a stimulating and energetic re-examination of a period in Labour's history that has been well-documented and no doubt will continue to be so."(William Stallard, Political Studies Review, May 2014)