Description
Austen Morgan’s study of Belfast labour politics in the years 1905-1923, is aimed at anyone wishing to understand the origins, extent and real significance of sectarian divisions and rivalries within Northern Ireland’s working class. The book contributes to the history of the Belfast working class and of the political movements – labourist, socialist, nationalist, republican, unionist and loyalist – which competed for its support. The book provokes reassessments not only of the period under study but of the ideological concepts and the relationships between class, religion, loyalism and the labour movement in Belfast past and present. Austen Morgan’s previous publications include “J Ramsey MacDonald” and “James Connolly – A Political Biography”.
