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Historical Studies in Industrial Relations: the General Strike of 1926

A special virtual issue of Historical Studies in Industrial Relations dealing with the General Strike and mining lockout of 1926 has been published to the Liverpool University Press website. Drawing on articles published in the journal over recent years, it includes an open access selective bibliography compiled by John McIlroy, Alan Campbell, Keith Laybourn, and Quentin Outram running to twenty-four pages. The virtual issue also … Continue reading Historical Studies in Industrial Relations: the General Strike of 1926

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Historical Studies in Industrial Relations 2024 now online

The latest issue of Historical Studies in Industrial Relations (Vol. 45, September 1, 2024) is now available online via Liverpool University Press (subscription required). Table of contents Research ArticlesSmashing the Subversive Unemployed: State Containment and Coercion of the National Unemployed Workers’ Movement, 1921–39Emanuel Bourges Espinosa Nancy Seear and the Investigation of Women’s EmploymentSusan Milner The British Labour Movement’s Involvement in West Indian Labour Struggles, 1934–39: … Continue reading Historical Studies in Industrial Relations 2024 now online

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Historical Studies in Industrial Relations, 2023

The new issue of Historical Studies in Industrial Relations (44, 2023) looks at a British printers’ strike for the 40-hour week in 1959 that ended in victory and then spread to other manual workers. In ‘Girls, Wives, Factory Lives: 50 years on’, Anna Pollert revisits her 1970s ethnographic study of women’s working lives at the Churchman tobacco factory in Bristol to discuss her qualitative methodology … Continue reading Historical Studies in Industrial Relations, 2023

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Labour history journals round-up, 2022

Labour history societies in Scotland, the North-East and North-West of England have published the 2022 issues of their journals, with articles spanning a wide range of topics, from the Lancashire cotton famine to the cultural impact of deindustrialisation. The latest issue of the journal Historical Studies in Industrial Relations is also now available online, with new research on the Master and Servant Statute of 1823 … Continue reading Labour history journals round-up, 2022

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