Jimmy Reid: A Clyde-Built Man

by A. McKinlay, W.W.J. Knox, William W.J. Knox

Book Overview

Described as "the best MP Scotland never had", Jimmy Reid was undoubtedly of the most important figures of late twentieth-century Britain. Often at the forefront of the major turning points in the history of industrial relations and politics in Britain, Jimmy's story is an epic one; from a poverty-stricken background in Govan, Glasgow, he became a communist at a young age, leading a national strike of engineering apprentices while only twenty, before...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1789620848
• ISBN13: 9781789620849
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"