Shorter Reviews
Abstract
JOHN MARRIOTT, The Culture of Labourism: The East The book falls short in one other important aspect, End Between the Wars. Edinburgh University Press, knowledge of the area. A reader might suspect that November 1991. ix+ 198 pages, 16 tables and illustra- Marriott knows the area well but in reality a lack of tions, appendix, references, index. £12.95 detailed knowledge is demonstrated, while sub- (paperback) . consciously West Ham of the 1920s may have been compared with Ealing of the 1970s. The title of this book is misleading - the work is The outcome is that the book does not do justice to neither about the East End nor does it cover the inter- West Ham, leading West Hammers of the day, the war years. It is primarily about the politics of West East End, nor even the inter-war period. It is based Ham, seen by many as not part of the East End. It on poor research, unquestioned acceptance of evidence, and is reliant on a sketchily defined con- covers the run up to the Labour Party taking undis- puted control in 1919, and the period of the next ten ceptual basis. From this it follows that it