Neville Kirk is Emeritus Professor of Labour and Social History at Manchester Metropolitan University. His publications include Labour and Society in Britain and the USA (1994), Comrades and Cousins (2003), Custom and Conflict in 'The Land of the Gael' (2007, 2009) and Labour and the Politics of Empire (2011, 2014). He is editor of Liverpool University Press's series Studies in Labour History and a member of the executive committee of the UK Society for the Study of Labour History.

'The first chapter on the "strengths, weaknesses, promise and pitfalls" (36) of the turn to transnational history, and concomitant comparative and global worlds is a strength of this book and will be essential reading for historians working in the area.' Melanie Nolan, Labour/Le Travail

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionI The Transnational ContextIntroduction1. Issues and Debates2. The Transnational World of Mann and RossII SocialismIntroduction3. What Kind of Socialism?4. Unfolding Differences, Enduring SimilaritiesIII Womanhood, Whiteness and WarIntroduction5. ‘True Womanhood’6. Race and Whiteness7. World War I and its AftermathConclusionBibliographyIndex

Neville Kirk is Emeritus Professor of Labour and Social History at Manchester Metropolitan University. His publications include Labour and Society in Britain and the USA (1994), Comrades and Cousins (2003), Custom and Conflict in 'The Land of the Gael' (2007, 2009) and Labour and the Politics of Empire (2011, 2014). He is editor of Liverpool University Press's series Studies in Labour History and a member of the executive committee of the UK Society for the Study of Labour History.

'The first chapter on the "strengths, weaknesses, promise and pitfalls" (36) of the turn to transnational history, and concomitant comparative and global worlds is a strength of this book and will be essential reading for historians working in the area.' Melanie Nolan, Labour/Le Travail

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionI The Transnational ContextIntroduction1. Issues and Debates2. The Transnational World of Mann and RossII SocialismIntroduction3. What Kind of Socialism?4. Unfolding Differences, Enduring SimilaritiesIII Womanhood, Whiteness and WarIntroduction5. ‘True Womanhood’6. Race and Whiteness7. World War I and its AftermathConclusionBibliographyIndex

Neville Kirk is Emeritus Professor of Labour and Social History at Manchester Metropolitan University. His publications include Labour and Society in Britain and the USA (1994), Comrades and Cousins (2003), Custom and Conflict in 'The Land of the Gael' (2007, 2009) and Labour and the Politics of Empire (2011, 2014). He is editor of Liverpool University Press's series Studies in Labour History and a member of the executive committee of the UK Society for the Study of Labour History.

'The first chapter on the "strengths, weaknesses, promise and pitfalls" (36) of the turn to transnational history, and concomitant comparative and global worlds is a strength of this book and will be essential reading for historians working in the area.' Melanie Nolan, Labour/Le Travail

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionI The Transnational ContextIntroduction1. Issues and Debates2. The Transnational World of Mann and RossII SocialismIntroduction3. What Kind of Socialism?4. Unfolding Differences, Enduring SimilaritiesIII Womanhood, Whiteness and WarIntroduction5. ‘True Womanhood’6. Race and Whiteness7. World War I and its AftermathConclusionBibliographyIndex