Introduction

Scheming ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Seán Damer
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
First World War ◽  
The State ◽  
Town Planning ◽  
Housing Situation ◽  
Insurance Policy ◽  
World War ◽  
The First World War ◽  
First World

This chapter discusses both the national and local housing situation in Glasgow at the end of the First World War. It argues that it was so bad that the state had to take the initiative in the provision of working-class housing “fit for heroes” as an insurance policy against revolution. But the consequent legislation – the 1919 Housing & Town Planning Act – was ill-designed, with over-generous subsidies. Nevertheless, within Glasgow, these schemes built under this Act were and are regarded as élite.

scholarly journals Overview on housing situation in Germany after First Word War with focus on activity of the GEHAG housing society in Berlin

2010 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-130
Author(s):  
Hubert Trammer
Keyword(s):  
First World War ◽  
Town Planning ◽  
Housing Conditions ◽  
Housing Situation ◽  
World War ◽  
Social Settlements ◽  
The First World War ◽  
First World ◽  
German Association ◽  
Detailed Presentation

After the First World War many reasons caused the increase of the scale of the problem of the bad housing conditions. This text presents the overview of the solutions, from the field of architecture and town planning as well as from the field of law and economy, created in Germany as an answer for the housing problem. The circumstances connected with them are also presented. There is a more detailed presentation of the activity of the biggest german association acting in the field of erecting housing assemblies – the GEHAG society (Gemeinnützige Heimsstätten- Aktiengesellschaft = Join-Stock Society for Social Settlements).

The Strange Radicalism of Thomas Carnduff and St John Ervine

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Connal Parr
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Working Class ◽  
First World War ◽  
Class Consciousness ◽  
World War ◽  
Abbey Theatre ◽  
Unpublished Work ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
The First World War ◽  
First World

St John Ervine and Thomas Carnduff were born in working-class Protestant parts of Belfast in the 1880s, though Ervine would escape to an eventually prosperous existence in England. Orangeism, the politics of early twentieth-century Ireland, the militancy of the age—and the involvement of these writers in it—along with Ervine’s journey from ardent Fabian to reactionary Unionist, via his pivotal experiences managing the Abbey Theatre and losing a leg in the First World War, are all discussed. Carnduff’s own tumultuous life is reflected through his complicated Orange affiliation, gut class-consciousness, poetry, unpublished work, contempt for the local (and gentrified) Ulster artistic scene, and veneration of socially conscious United Irishman James Hope. It concludes with an assessment of their respective legacies and continuing import.

scholarly journals Whatever Happened to Red Clydeside?

1990 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Melling
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Working Class ◽  
First World War ◽  
Popular Politics ◽  
Skilled Workers ◽  
World War ◽  
Class Politics ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Revolutionary Politics ◽  
First World

SUMMARYRecent studies of industrial conflict during the First World War have challenged earlier interpretations of working-class politics in Britain. The debate has focussed on the events in west Scotland during the years when the legend of “Red Clydeside” was made. It is now commonplace to emphasise the limited progress of revolutionary politics and the presence of a powerful craft sectionalism in the industrial workforce. This essay discusses the recent research on workplace unrest, popular politics and the wartime state. Although the “new revisionism” provides an important corrective to earlier scholarship, there remain important questions which require a serious reappraisal of the forces behind the different forms of collective action which took place and their implications for the politics of socialism. It is argued that the struggles of skilled workers made an important contribution to the growth of Labour politics on the Clyde.

Philosophical idealism and international politics: Bosanquet, Treitschke and war

1975 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Savigear
Keyword(s):  
International Politics ◽  
First World War ◽  
The State ◽  
General Interest ◽  
World War ◽  
International Theory ◽  
The First World War ◽  
First World

Bernard Bosanquet spent the First World War at his cottage in Oxshott, in Surrey, and from here he measured the implications of the conflict for his philosophy of the state. The result of this reflection is available to us in the letters which he wrote during the war, and a variety of lectures and papers. His ideas, therefore, have a general interest to students of international theory.

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