The books listed below are reviewed in Labour History Review (2022), 87, (3), 323-337. Find out more.

Claudia Jarzebowski reviews Mary Nejedly, The Industrious Child Worker: Child Labour and Childhood in Birmingham and the West Midlands, 1750–1900, Hatfield: University of Hertfordshire Press, 2021, pp. viii + 214, p/b, £16.99, ISBN 978 19122 60430

Janette Martin reviews Lyndsey Jenkins, Sisters and Sisterhood: The Kenney Family, Class, and Suffrage, 1890–1965, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021, pp. vii + 292, h/b, £65, ISBN 978 01928 48802

Francis Devine reviews Anne Boran, Challenge to Power: Nixie Boran (1904–1971), Freedom and the Castlecomer Coal Miners, Dublin: Geography Publications, 2020, pp. 236, h/b, €35, ISBN: 978 09066 02973

Martin Conway reviews Elizabeth Kier, War and Democracy: Labor and the Politics of Peace, Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2021, pp. 258, h/b, $44.95, ISBN 978 15017 56405

Tom Buchanan reviews Barry McLoughlin and Emmet O’Connor, In Spanish Trenches: The Minds and Deeds of the Irish Who Fought for the Republic in the Spanish Civil War, Dublin: University College Dublin Press, 2020, pp. xxiii + 412, h/b, €30, ISBN 978 19108 20582