Category: Labour History Review

Articles featuring the SSLH journal Labour History Review, including abstracts of articles, and the LHR essay prize.

Labour History Review

Conditional Universalism: Immigration and Nationalist Trade Unionism in 1980s Corsica

Author:  Guillaume GenoudThis is the abstract of an article published in Labour History Review (2025), 90, (3). Read this article. This article examines how Corsican nationalism reshaped trade union practice through the Sindicatu di i Travagliadori Corsi (Corsican Workers’ Union, STC), founded in 1984 after local activists broke with mainstream French confederations. Drawing on archival sources and oral histories, it traces the STC’s evolving stance toward immigration and non-Corsican workers … Continue reading Conditional Universalism: Immigration and Nationalist Trade Unionism in 1980s Corsica

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The Spectre of Communism: Print Surveillance in the Working-Class Movement of Late Colonial Calcutta (1920–1947)

Author:  Manaswini SenThis is the abstract of an article published in Labour History Review (2025), 90, (3). Read this article. This paper examines how the empire’s hysteria against militant trade unionism and its anti-colonial essence lay at the root of the colonial state’s proliferation of surveillance apparatus in late colonial Bengal. It primarily focuses on how the state censored, proscribed, and surveilled the literary output of trade unionists and other … Continue reading The Spectre of Communism: Print Surveillance in the Working-Class Movement of Late Colonial Calcutta (1920–1947)

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The Sentier Strike in Paris (1980): The Mobilization of Immigrant Workers as an Anti-Imperialist Struggle

Author:  Camille Fauroux and Fatma Çıngı KocadostThis is the abstract of an article published in Labour History Review (2025), 90, (3). Read this article. In the 1970s, young activists of the Turkish revolutionary left found themselves in France as refugees, students, or workers. Amongst them, members of Devrimci Yol (Revolutionary Way), galvanized by the intensity of the struggles in Turkey, decided to do their bit by organizing migrant workers … Continue reading The Sentier Strike in Paris (1980): The Mobilization of Immigrant Workers as an Anti-Imperialist Struggle

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Britain’s Labour Party and the Anti-Colonial Labour Movement in Fiji (1945–1970)

Author:  Adrien RoddThis is the abstract of an article published in Labour History Review (2025), 90, (3). Read this article. The Labour Party in Britain achieved its first ever absolute parliamentary majority in the 1945 general election, at the tail end of the Second World War. Historically a socialist and internationalist party founded with the aim of providing parliamentary representation to trade unionists and the working class, Labour formed … Continue reading Britain’s Labour Party and the Anti-Colonial Labour Movement in Fiji (1945–1970)

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Books etc, Labour History Review

Book reviews in Labour History Review volume 90 (2025), Issue 3

The books listed below are reviewed in Labour History Review (2025), 90, (3). Read the reviews. Matthew Stibbe reviews Michael Braddick, Christopher Hill: The Life of a Radical Historian, London and New York: Verso, 2025, pp. x + 308, h/b, £35, ISBN 978 18397 60778 Bill Longshaw reviews Nick Mansfield and Martin Wright, Made by Labour, A Material and Visual History of British Labour c.1780–1924, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, … Continue reading Book reviews in Labour History Review volume 90 (2025), Issue 3

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Labour History Review, SSLH news

SSLH honours Labour History Review essay prize winners 2025

Florencia D’Uva of Universidad de Bueons Aires has been awarded the Labour History Review Post-Graduate Essay Prize for 2025. James Squires of Sheffield Hallam University has been named runner up. LHR editor Professor Peter Gurney presented Dr Uva with her winner’s cheque for £700 at an event held by the Society for the Study of Labour History at the Marx Memorial Library on Saturday 29 … Continue reading SSLH honours Labour History Review essay prize winners 2025

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Labour History Review Volume 90 (2025), issue 2

Labour History Review Volume 90 (2025), Issue 2 has now been published. The journal appears both in hard copy and online formats. In this issue… Keith Laybourn and Neil Pye investigate the early political involvement of Eric Heffer in the Communist Party of Great Britain and Socialist Workers’ Federation, and reveal how his experiences and reading shaped his later politics as a leading figure on … Continue reading Labour History Review Volume 90 (2025), issue 2

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A Rebel with a Cause: Eric Heffer, the Marxist Years, 1938-1958

Author: Keith Laybourn and Neil PyeThis is the abstract of an article published in Labour History Review (2025), 90, (2). Read this article. Eric Heffer, who rose to the top of the Labour Party’s left-wing hierarchy in the 1970s and 1980s, spent much of his early political career in the Communist Party of Great Britain and, after being expelled in 1948, in the Socialist Workers’ Federation, an anti-Communist … Continue reading A Rebel with a Cause: Eric Heffer, the Marxist Years, 1938-1958

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‘The Workers’ Stately Home’: Wortley Hall in Post-War Britain

Author: Michael BaileyThis is the abstract of an article published in Labour History Review (2025), 90, (2). Read this article. Although there are relatively large bodies of interrelated literature concerning trade unions, industrial politics, workers’ education and leisure in post-war Britain, little has been written about the importance of Wortley Hall (also known as ‘The Workers’ Stately Home’ or ‘Labour’s Home’) as a popular educational and holiday centre … Continue reading ‘The Workers’ Stately Home’: Wortley Hall in Post-War Britain

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Domestic Service and the Labour Movement in Franco-Era Spain: The Young Christian Workers and the Struggles of Domestic Workers (1960–1976)

Author: Diego LatorreThis is the abstract of an article published in Labour History Review (2025), 90, (2). Read this article. The 1960s and 1970s in Spain were a period of intense social mobilization against Franco’s dictatorship. The clandestine and democratic labour movement was the main political agent behind efforts to improve working conditions and to achieve a political transition towards democracy in Spain. However, within this context, domestic … Continue reading Domestic Service and the Labour Movement in Franco-Era Spain: The Young Christian Workers and the Struggles of Domestic Workers (1960–1976)

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