Labour history societies in Scotland, the North-East and North-West of England have published the 2022 issues of their journals, with articles spanning a wide range of topics, from the Lancashire cotton famine to the cultural impact of deindustrialisation.

The latest issue of the journal Historical Studies in Industrial Relations is also now available online, with new research on the Master and Servant Statute of 1823 and a critical look at gender equality and employment regulation in the New Labour years which focuses on the gender pay gap.

Scottish Labour History 57(2022), published by the Scottish Labour History Society, carries the text of the society’s inaugural Ian MacDougall lecture, for which Professor Lynn Abrams talked on ‘The Value of Oral Histories of Working People’. Other content includes:

• Patrick Dollan, James Maxton and the Scottish Socialist Party, by Danny Carrigan
• The Reverend Richard Lee: The Man Who Buried John Maclean, by Gerard Cairns
• De-provincialising 1820: The West of Scotland General Strike in the Mirror of Uneven and Combined Development (part 2), by Neil Davidson & Jamie Allinson
• The Cultural Impact of Deindustrialisation: Scottish Coal Communities and Brass Bands, 1950s-1984, by Marion Henry

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The North East Labour History Society journal North East History 53(2022) includes an appreciation of the life of Nigel Todd, who died in 2021. Nigel was a veteran Labour member of Newcastle City Council, a radical historian and activist in many causes. His portrait appears on the journal’s front cover.

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The North West Labour History Society’s North West History Journal 47(2022-2023) focuses on the Labour Party rally held at Belle Vue, Manchester on 4 July 1948, at which Aneurin Bevan, who is pictured on the journal’s front cover, spoke.  Other articles look at the Moss Side Community Press in the 1970s, the Lancashire cotton famine of 1861-1865, and Manchester’s opposition to slavery.

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Historical Studies in Industrial Relations 43(2022), includes the following articles:

• Editorial, by Paul Smith
• The Master and Servant Statute of 1823: 4 Geo. 4 c. 34, Enlarging the Powers of Justices Act, by Douglas Hay
• Sweet and Subversive Stuff: An Exploratory Survey of Yellow Unions, by Marcel van der Linden
• Neither Nationalist nor Communist, but Independent: The Origins and Consolidation of Mauritian Trade-Unionism, 1935–1950, by Richard Croucher, Mark Houssart and Didier Benoit Michel
• Gender Equality and Employment Regulation in the New Labour Years, 1997–2010: The Problem of the Gender Pay Gap, by Susan Milner
• Working for Ford: The Theoretical Legacy, by Paul Edwards
• Working for Ford: The Historical Context, by Paul Smith
• Looking Back, by Huw Beynon
• The Continuing Value of Harry Braverman’s Labor and Monopoly Capital, by Bob Carter and Joseph Choonara

HSIR also carries book reviews and review essays on

• The Sociology of the Sociology of Work in the UK, by Tony Elger
• An Accounting Historian’s Response to Accounting for Slavery: Masters and Management by Caitlin Rosenthal, by Thomas Tyson
• The Contradictions and Depredations of Conservative Neoliberalism, by Peter Dorey

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