Category: Labour History Review

Labour History Review is published three times a year by the Society for the Study of Labour History in association with Liverpool University Press.

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Workforce Disability and the 1949 ‘Ineffectives’ Strike in London Docks

Author: Jim PhillipsThis is the abstract of an article published in Labour History Review (2025), 90, (1). Read more. In April 1949 the employment of thirty-two registered dock workers in London was terminated because they were regarded as ‘ineffective’, incapable physically of performing the job. Their redundancies were briefly resisted through strike action. This ended when the Labour government threatened to prosecute strike leaders. The episode highlighted the … Continue reading Workforce Disability and the 1949 ‘Ineffectives’ Strike in London Docks

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Professor John Samuel Shepherd (5 May 1942–20 November 2024): A Reflection

Author: Keith LaybournThis is the abstract of an article published in Labour History Review (2025), 90, (1). Read more. Professor John Samuel Shepherd has been one of the leading historians of British Labour history and of the British Labour Party for more than thirty years. He was something of a late developer who felt that he had had to overcome the constraints of his working-class background to pursue … Continue reading Professor John Samuel Shepherd (5 May 1942–20 November 2024): A Reflection

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

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Labour History Review Volume 89 (2024), issue 3

Labour History Review Volume 89 (2024), Issue 3 has now been published. The journal appears both in hard copy and online formats.  In this issue… Édouard Dolléans has been described as the first modern historian of Chartism. But his work, first published in France in 1912-13, is little known among students of the Chartist movement and has never been translated into English. While situating Dolléans … Continue reading Labour History Review Volume 89 (2024), issue 3

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Édouard Dolléans: First Modern Historian of Chartism?

Author: Kevin MorganThis is the abstract of an article published in Labour History Review (2024), 89, (3). Read more. Though Édouard Dolléans (1877–1954) was described by Malcolm Chase as Chartism’s first modern historian, his writings on the subject have never been translated into English and are largely unfamiliar to current historians of the movement. This paper discusses the two editions of Dolléans’s history of Chartism, published in 1912–13 … Continue reading Édouard Dolléans: First Modern Historian of Chartism?

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Exorcizing Dysfunctional Myths: Betrayal, Economic Incompetence, and the Memory of the 1931 Second Labour Government’s Crisis

Author: Giuseppe Telesca This is the abstract of an article published in Labour History Review (2024), 89, (3). Read more. On 23 August 1931, the second Labour government split over the decision to cut unemployment benefits. The next day, a National Government, led by Labour leader Ramsay MacDonald, but largely supported by Conservative and Liberal MPs, was appointed to ‘save sterling’ – only to decide to leave the gold … Continue reading Exorcizing Dysfunctional Myths: Betrayal, Economic Incompetence, and the Memory of the 1931 Second Labour Government’s Crisis

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From Old Labour to the Third Way: The UK Labour Party’s Social and Welfare Policy Evolution between 1975 and 1997

Author: Ben Williams This is the abstract of an article published in Labour History Review (2024), 89, (3). Read more. In parallel to the emergence and subsequent dominance of Thatcherite ideology across the realm of British politics from the mid-1970s, the UK Labour Party’s social and welfare policy agenda reacted and evolved for over two decades, a simultaneous and often futile process that occurred largely during a sustained and … Continue reading From Old Labour to the Third Way: The UK Labour Party’s Social and Welfare Policy Evolution between 1975 and 1997

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Book reviews in Labour History Review volume 89 (2024), Issue 3

The books listed below are reviewed in Labour History Review (2024), 89, (3). Read more. Siân Davies reviews Randy M. Browne, The Driver’s Story: Labor and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024, pp. 224, h/b, £36, ISBN 978 15128 25862 Andrew Frow-Jones reviews Vic Gatrell, Conspiracy on Cato Street: A Tale of Liberty and Revolution in Regency London, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022, … Continue reading Book reviews in Labour History Review volume 89 (2024), Issue 3

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Labour History Review Essay Prize

The Labour History Review essay prize 2025 is announced in Labour History Review (2024), 89, (3). Read more. The editors of Labour History Review established this essay prize with the purpose of encouraging a high standard of scholarship amongst postgraduate research students in Britain and abroad. The winner’s prize will consist of: • Publication of the winning essay in Labour History Review • A cash prize of £700 • One year’s … Continue reading Labour History Review Essay Prize

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