The books listed below are reviewed in Labour History Review (2026), 91, (1). Read the reviews.

Abhishek Yadav reviews Titas Chakraborty, Empire of Labor: How the East India Company Colonized Hired Work, Oakland: University of California Press, 2025, pp. xiv + 322, h/b, £53.65, ISBN 978 05203 99631

Quentin Outram reviews Jessica Field, Eviction: A Social History of Rent, London: Verso, 2025, pp. vi + 280, h/b, £20, ISBN 978 18042 98886; Ned Newitt, Housing the People of Leicester: A History of Social Housing 1900–2000, Leicester: The Leicester Pioneer Press, 2025, pp. 302, p/b, £19.95, ISBN 978 09552 82546; Colin James and Elizabeth James, The Lost Back-to-Back Streets of Leeds: Woodhouse in the 1960s and ’70s, Cheltenham: The History Press, 2024, pp. 144, h/b, £20, ISBN 978 18039 95144

John Belcham reviews Adam Sisman, The Indefatigable Asa Briggs, London: William Collins, 2025, pp. 485, h/b, £30, ISBN 978 00085 56419

Grace Huxford reviews Peter Gurney, Matthew Grant, and Joel Morley, National Service Life Stories: Masculinity, Class, and the Memory of Conscription in Britain, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025, pp. viii + 344, h/b, £99, ISBN 978 01928 98968

Ian Greenwood reviews Charlie McGuire, Steelworkers in Struggle: An Oral history of the 1980 National Steel Strike, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2025, pp. 225, h/b, £80, ISBN 978 15261 23206