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Voluntarism versus Jacobinism: Labor, Nation, and Citizenship in Britain, 1850–1950

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James Hinton
James Hinton
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International Labor and Working-Class History , Volume 48 , Fall 1995 , pp. 68 - 90
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I should like to thank Helmut Gruber and Geoff Field for their comments on an earlier draft of this paper.

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