The 1930s depression revived British working-class electoral strength.
Evidence
The material crises of world capital and the political incompetence of the ruling classes, despite the repeated betrayals by the leaderships of the Labour Party and the trade union movement, provided a basis for a certain regeneration of the formal working-class movement and its electoral aspect. Membership in the trade unions expanded, and the Labour Party, in disgrace in 1931, made substantial gains (as did the CPGB) in the municipal elections of 1932, 1933, and 1934, and the general election of 1935. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1260
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Austerity reversed postwar labor income gains in both Italy and Britain by 1929 — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 1486; British working-class culture was fundamentally remade between the 1880s and 1920s — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 996; English Marxism shifted to middle-class intellectuals after the Depression — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1221 (+5 more)
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Austerity reversed postwar labor income gains in both Italy and Britain by 1929 — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 1486; British working-class culture was fundamentally remade between the 1880s and 1920s — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 996; English Marxism shifted to middle-class intellectuals after the Depression — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1221 (+5 more)
Broader Connections
- English Marxism shifted to middle-class intellectuals after the Depression
#complicates(0.78) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1221 - Labour governments functioned as crisis managers who fragmented working-class resistance
#complicates(0.76) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 1100 - The 1920 depression fragmented union solidarity into defensive per-industry retreat
#complicates(0.73) — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 412 - Austerity reversed postwar labor income gains in both Italy and Britain by 1929
#complicates(0.72) — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 1486