Labour in the Suburbs: Political Change in Croydon During the Twentieth Century

This book is the first comprehensive economic, social and political study of the London suburb of Croydon from 1900 up to the present day.

One of the largest London boroughs, Croydon, has always been a mixed residential suburb (mainly private but with some municipal housing), which has strongly influenced the nature of its political representation. It was never just an affluent middle-class suburb or ‘bourgeoise utopia,’ as suggested by traditional definitions of suburbia and in popular ima...