Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Professor Wrigley's monograph looks at 20th century British history. Its major subject is the development of the state's role in industrial relations during the first world war. It focuses on the key role of David Lloyd George, and also provides an examination of his earlier relationship with the labour movement and his efforts at conciliation while a cabinet minister in the pre-war liberal governments.
Synopsis
Before the First World War, Lloyd George moved from being the leading Nonconformist Welsh Radical in to being a highly effective Radical minister, providing imaginative solutions to social welfare and free trade finance. Highly sympathetic to poor people and unorganised labour, he was not trade union minded.