Table of Contents

Introduction: an electoral problem
POLITICAL LANDSCAPES
1: Dispossession: rural histories on the Left
2: Voters in a landscape
3: Rural idylls
THE RURAL LABOUR MOVEMENT
4: Campaigning in the countryside
5: The rural Labour parties
6: Trade unionism in rural areas
PLANNING THE FUTURE
7: Policies for agriculture
8: Labour and the farmers
9: A land for the people
Conclusion: reclaiming the ground?
Appendices

Reviews

[an] impressively scholarly, deeply researched and original book Jeremy Burchardt, 20th Century British History a very important book. It is important because it presents a history of the politics of inter-war rural Britain in the context of economic, social and cultural change at both national and grass roots levels. It challenges a lot of assumptions and demads that we look at the other parties in the same way. Alun Howkins, Agricultural History Review