The new issue of Historical Studies in Industrial Relations (44, 2023) looks at a British printers’ strike for the 40-hour week in 1959 that ended in victory and then spread to other manual workers. In ‘Girls, Wives, Factory Lives: 50 years on’, Anna Pollert revisits her 1970s ethnographic study of women’s working lives at the Churchman tobacco factory in Bristol to discuss her qualitative methodology and to summarize her findings. And Kathy O’Donnell examines canteen workers’ wages and collective-bargaining arrangements in British Coal, focusing on the reasons for the existence and persistence of a wage differential of around 20%.

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