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The life story of Will Crooks has a Dickensian resonance. As a working-class child, born into abject poverty, he experienced the rigours of Popular Workhouse and Poor Law school. Nearly fourty years later Crooks became Chairman of the Popular Board of Guardians, the very board that had given him shelter during his challenging early years. Crooks was a member of the Cooper's Union and Labour movement for over thirty. This significant and sometimes controversial figure has been overlooked by modern historians. Here, Paul Tyler presents a pioneering political biography of a significant Labour figure at both a local and national level and an important reinterpretation of the early trade union and labour movement from the 1880s to the 1920s.
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Acknowledgements
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Introduction
Part One: Local Activist and Labour Pioneer 1852-1907
Will Crooks of Poplar
Guardian of the Poor
Unemployment and the Poor Law
Woolwich and independent Labour representation
Part Two: Labour Pioneer and Member of Parliament 1903-1921
5 Member for Woolwich
6 Role in Parliament and the General Elections of 1910
7 Returns to the Parliamentary Fray
8 War and Peace
References and Notes
Bibliography
Index
