Political Unions, Popular Politics and the Great Reform Act of 1832

Political Unions, Popular Politics and the Great Reform Act of 1832
Author: N. LoPatin
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 250
Release: 1998-11-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 0230371027

This book is the first on the creation, development and influence of popular politics, specifically the role of Political Unions, on the Great Reform Act of 1832. Political Unions and the force of public opinion played a vital role in seeing the Reform Bill through Parliament and setting England on the path of peaceful, legislative reform. Their emphasis on representing the 'industrious' classes linked the Unions to the emerging debates - political and socio-economic - in later Victorian Britain and the evolution of British participatory democracy.