TY - BOOK ID - 78643448 TI - 'Red Ellen' Wilkinson AU - Perry, Matt AU - UPSO eCollections (University Press Scholarship Online). PY - 2014 SN - 0719098491 9780719098499 9781781706831 1781706832 9780719087202 0719087201 9780719097447 0719098483 PB - Manchester DB - UniCat KW - Wilkinson, Ellen Cicely, KW - Labour Party (Great Britain) KW - Britanskai︠a︡ rabochai︠a︡ partīi︠a︡ KW - British Labour Party KW - Eikoku Rōdōtō KW - Labor Party (Great Britain) KW - Leĭboristskai︠a︡ partii︠a︡ Anglii KW - Leĭboristskai︠a︡ partii︠a︡ Velikobritanii KW - LPV KW - Mifleget ha-laibor (Great Britain) KW - Parti travailliste britannique KW - Partido Laborista (Great Britain) KW - Partido Laborista Británico KW - Yŏngguk Nodongdang KW - 工黨 (英國) KW - Labour Representation Committee (Great Britain : 1900-1906) KW - History. KW - Great Britain KW - Politics and government KW - Anti-fascism. KW - Labour. KW - Marxism. KW - biography. KW - feminism. KW - socialism. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78643448 AB - Unearthing new evidence to provide a richer understanding of her life, this study, now available in paperback, delves beyond the familiar image of Ellen Wilkinson on the Jarrow Crusade. From a humble background, she ascended to the rank of minister in the 1945 Labour government. Yet she was much more than a conventional Labour politician. She wrote journalism, political theory and novels. She was both a socialist and a feminist; at times, she described herself as a revolutionary. She experienced Soviet Russia, the Indian civil disobedience campaign, the Spanish Civil War and the Third Reich. This study deploys transnational and social movement theory perspectives to grapple with the complex itinerary of her ideas. Interest in Wilkinson remains strong among academic and non-academic audiences alike. This is in part because her principal concerns - working-class representation, the status of women, capitalist crisis, war, anti-fascism - remain central to contentious politics today. ER -