Book reviews in Labour History Review volume 90 (2025), Issue 1

The books listed below are reviewed in Labour History Review (2024), 89, (3). Read more.

Joseph Stanley reviews John Sanders, Workers of Their Own Emancipation: Working-Class Leadership and Organisation in the West Riding Textile District, 1829–1839, London: Breviary Stuff Publications, 2024, pp. xii + 536, p/b, £24.99, ISBN 978 19161 58672

John Cunningham reviews Peter Gray, William Sharman Crawford and Ulster Radicalism, Dublin: UCD Press, 2023, pp. xix + 467, p/b, €45.00, ISBN 978 19108 20438

Joe Davey reviews Graeme J. Milne, Making Men in the Age of Sail: Masculinity, Memoir, and the British Merchant Seafarer, 1860–1914, Montreal: McGill–Queen’s University Press, 2024, pp. ix + 252, p/b, £31.00, ISBN 978 02280 21308

Keith Gildart reviews Fawn-Amber Montoya and Karin Larkin (eds), Communities of Ludlow: Collaborative Stewardship and the Ludlow Centennial Commemoration Commission, Louisville: University Press of Colorado, 2022, pp. xxxviii + 213, h/b, £36.58, ISBN 978 16464 22272

Patrick Smylie reviews John Cunningham and Terry Dunne (eds), Spirit of Revolution: Ireland from Below, 1917–1923, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2024, pp. 288, h/b, €24.95, ISBN: 978 18015 11186

Quentin Outram reviews Arthur McIvor, Jobs and Bodies: An Oral History of Health and Safety in Britain, London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024, pp. xiv + 289, p/b, £24.99, ISBN 978 13502 36219

Elizabeth Faue reviews David Montgomery, A David Montgomery Reader: Essays on Capitalism and Worker Resistance (ed. Shelton Stromquist and James R. Barrett), Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2024, pp. xxii + 447, h/b, $125.00, ISBN 978 02520 45905, p/b, $35.00, ISBN 978 02520 88001, eBook, $19.95, ISBN 978 02520 56796


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