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A hardcover first edition, 1965, of Emmet Larkin's biography of James ( Jim ) Larkin, the noted Labour leader, organiser, socialist, orator and agitator, and icon of the left.
Larkin was a hugely influential labour leader, involved in socialist labour politics on both sides of the Atlantic, a founder of the US Communist party, a revolutionary syndicalist, a sometime Bolshevik, a recruiter and founder of the ITGWU, the main union force behind the events of the 1913 Dublin lockout, and a fierce anti war agitator during WW1. He continued to advocate for socialism in the newly formed Irish Free state, but the new state was in many ways as conservative socially as the state it replaced.
Condition - lacks the dustjacket, some academic library marks ( very minor)
A serious and well written personal and political biography of an intriguing figure in 20th century history.
Emmet Larkin ( no relation to James) went on to be a noted historian of Irish history and of Irish Catholicism.
