Tag: industrial relations

Commentary

One strike or two? How data changes undermine what we know about stoppages

Changes over the past decade to the ways in which data on strikes is collected and published risk undermining the value for academics and policy-makers of a series which has been running since the 1890s, according to an analysis by industrial relations specialist Dr Dave Lyddon. In an open access article for the Industrial Relations Journal, Dr Lyddon argues that the most recent change, which … Continue reading One strike or two? How data changes undermine what we know about stoppages

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Labour history news

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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Labour History Review

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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Events

Worlds of Digital Labour: ITH conference

The 59th International Conference of Labour and Social History (ITH) takes place at Linz, Austria, from 26-28 September 2024. Titled Worlds of Digital Labour, the event is organised by ITH in co-operation with the Chamber of Labour of Upper Austria, the Chamber of Labour of Vienna, the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, the Österreichische Gesellschaft für Politische Bildung and the City of Linz. … Continue reading Worlds of Digital Labour: ITH conference

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Books etc

Hugh Clegg: intellectual biography of a key figure in industrial relations and labour history

Hugh Clegg was a founding figure of post-war British industrial relations. He defined ‘industrial democracy’ as collective bargaining with trade unions, laid the foundations for the pluralist approach to industrial relations, was a key figure in the post-war social sciences, and a major public policy player. In a new book, Trade Unions and the British Industrial Relations Crisis, Peter Ackers, Emeritus Professor in the History … Continue reading Hugh Clegg: intellectual biography of a key figure in industrial relations and labour history

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