The books listed below are reviewed in Labour History Review (2024), 89, (1), 73-93. Read more.

Mike Mecham reviews John Cunningham, Francis Devine, and Sonja Tiernan (eds), Labour History in Irish History: Essays Celebrating Fifty Years of the Irish Labour History Society, Dublin: Umiskin Press, 2023, pp. 451, p/b, £25, ISBN 978 18381 11212

Martin Spence reviews Michael Tichelar, Labour in the Suburbs: Political Change in Croydon during the Twentieth Century, New York & Abingdon: Routledge, 2023, pp. 284, h/b, £96, ISBN 978 10322 06394

Jonathan Hyslop reviews Diane Kirkby with Lee-Ann Monk and Dmytro Ostapenko, Maritime Men of the Asia-Pacific: True-Blue Internationals Navigating Labour Rights, 1906–2006, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2022, pp. xvi + 332, h/b, £71, ISBN 978 18020 77193, p/b, £24, 978 18020 77513

Gregory Billam reviews Michael Crowley, Comrades Come Rally! Manchester Communists in the 1930s and 1940s, London: Bookmarks Publications, 2022, pp. 361, p/b, £15, ISBN 978 19141 43533

Jim Phillips reviews Andy Clark, Fighting Deindustrialisation: Scottish Women’s Factory Occupations, 1981–1982, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2022, pp. xii + 251, h/b, £76, ISBN 978 18020 77117, p/b, £20, ISBN, 978 18020 77124, e-book, £20, ISBN 978 18376 49501

Jonathan Winterton reviews Robert Gildea, Backbone of the Nation: Mining Communities and the Great Strike of 1984–85, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2023, pp. xxiii + 469, h/b, £25, ISBN 978 03002 66580

Ewan Gibbs reviews Neville Kirk, A Nation in Crisis: Division, Conflict and Capitalism in the United Kingdom, London: Bloomsbury, 2024, pp. 232, h/b, £65, ISBN 978 13503 74515, p/b, £21.99, ISBN 978 13503 74508, ebook, £19.79, ISBN 978 13503 74478