Recent years have seen an inceased interest in transnationalism across the disciplines of the social sciences and humanities. Replacing notions of 'the British world' or of 'the local and the global' such studies have now gained wide currency in the fields of social, imperial, and gender history. Little, however, has been written about the relevance of transnational perspectives for the field of labour history. Surveying a range of recent literature in this area, this review article addresses recent debates about transnationalism, locates them in context, and reappraised their significance for the broader field of labour studies. Keywords: Transnationalism, labour history
{"title":"The Transnational Turn in British Labour History","authors":"Antony J. W. Taylor","doi":"10.3828/LHR.2016.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/LHR.2016.4","url":null,"abstract":"Recent years have seen an inceased interest in transnationalism across the disciplines of the social sciences and humanities. Replacing notions of 'the British world' or of 'the local and the global' such studies have now gained wide currency in the fields of social, imperial, and gender history. Little, however, has been written about the relevance of transnational perspectives for the field of labour history. Surveying a range of recent literature in this area, this review article addresses recent debates about transnationalism, locates them in context, and reappraised their significance for the broader field of labour studies. \u0000Keywords: Transnationalism, labour history","PeriodicalId":43028,"journal":{"name":"Labour History Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2016-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3828/LHR.2016.4","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70531870","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article analyses the role of the early New Left, and especially Edward Palmer Thompson, in the formation and political development of the Fife Socialist League in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The focus is on the attempts of The New Reasoner group to become affiliated with the Fife Socialist League and its leader, Lawrence Daly. This article outlines how both The New Reasoner group and the League initially understood their dissident stance inside the British Communist camp. It places them in the historical context of the early British New Left and reveals how a New Leftist presence in the case of Fife was demonstrated in practice. The final section attempts to explain the reasons behind the limited influence of the New Leftists within the labour movement and how this affected the development of the League.
{"title":"E.P. Thompson, the Early New Left and the Fife Socialist League","authors":"Christos Efstathiou","doi":"10.3828/LHR.2016.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/LHR.2016.2","url":null,"abstract":"This article analyses the role of the early New Left, and especially Edward Palmer Thompson, in the formation and political development of the Fife Socialist League in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The focus is on the attempts of The New Reasoner group to become affiliated with the Fife Socialist League and its leader, Lawrence Daly. This article outlines how both The New Reasoner group and the League initially understood their dissident stance inside the British Communist camp. It places them in the historical context of the early British New Left and reveals how a New Leftist presence in the case of Fife was demonstrated in practice. The final section attempts to explain the reasons behind the limited influence of the New Leftists within the labour movement and how this affected the development of the League.","PeriodicalId":43028,"journal":{"name":"Labour History Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2016-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3828/LHR.2016.2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70531742","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: Barry McLoughlin, \"Fighting for Republican Spain: Frank Ryan and the Volunteers from Limerick in the International Brigades, 1936–38\", Lulu.com, 2014","authors":"M. Brodie","doi":"10.3828/lhr.2016.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/lhr.2016.5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43028,"journal":{"name":"Labour History Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3828/lhr.2016.5","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70531977","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article follows the fortunes of a group of riveters who moved, briefly, from the Clyde to the Copperbelt to work on construction at the newly opened copper mines in the region in 1930. Escaping from Depression-era Glasgow, these volatile riveters clashed with hard-bitten American mine managers over wages, self-respect and the colour bar in southern Africa, events best understood within a framework of the transnational world of white labour. The history of labour migration in colonial Africa has been studied almost exclusively in terms of African labour yet large numbers of people arrived from outside the continent to work on the mines in central and southern Africa. Although only a sliver of these wider population flows, the riveters provide a snapshot in the wider British labour movement and movements of white migrants during this period. This article argues that their experiences illustrate the curious, influential politics of ‘white labourism’ where political radicalism and industrial militancy we...
{"title":"‘There are worse places than Dalmuir!’ Glaswegian Riveters on the Clyde and the Copperbelt","authors":"D. Money","doi":"10.3828/LHR.2015.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/LHR.2015.12","url":null,"abstract":"This article follows the fortunes of a group of riveters who moved, briefly, from the Clyde to the Copperbelt to work on construction at the newly opened copper mines in the region in 1930. Escaping from Depression-era Glasgow, these volatile riveters clashed with hard-bitten American mine managers over wages, self-respect and the colour bar in southern Africa, events best understood within a framework of the transnational world of white labour. The history of labour migration in colonial Africa has been studied almost exclusively in terms of African labour yet large numbers of people arrived from outside the continent to work on the mines in central and southern Africa. Although only a sliver of these wider population flows, the riveters provide a snapshot in the wider British labour movement and movements of white migrants during this period. This article argues that their experiences illustrate the curious, influential politics of ‘white labourism’ where political radicalism and industrial militancy we...","PeriodicalId":43028,"journal":{"name":"Labour History Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2015-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3828/LHR.2015.12","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70531499","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The ‘Rochdale Pioneers’ are generally regarded as the originators of modern co-operation through their combination of ethical trading with the dividend on purchases. There are other contenders for this label, but the Toad Lane premises of the ‘Pioneers’ has become a centre for global co-operative pilgrimage, and the Pioneers have acquired their own foundation myths. This article revisits the origins of the Rochdale Pioneers, offering a critical assessment of the competing stories about their social, political, and religious composition, and making use of primary sources housed at the co-operative College in Manchester, together with the dedicated researches of amateur historians. It aims to provide the best possible approximation to the social composition, geographical antecedents, religious and ethical values, and political outlook of the earliest members of the Society, setting the ‘Rochdale Pioneers’ firmly in the context of their town and its economy, and of broader developments within the Lancashire ...
{"title":"Revisiting the Rochdale Pioneers","authors":"J. Walton","doi":"10.3828/LHR.2015.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/LHR.2015.10","url":null,"abstract":"The ‘Rochdale Pioneers’ are generally regarded as the originators of modern co-operation through their combination of ethical trading with the dividend on purchases. There are other contenders for this label, but the Toad Lane premises of the ‘Pioneers’ has become a centre for global co-operative pilgrimage, and the Pioneers have acquired their own foundation myths. This article revisits the origins of the Rochdale Pioneers, offering a critical assessment of the competing stories about their social, political, and religious composition, and making use of primary sources housed at the co-operative College in Manchester, together with the dedicated researches of amateur historians. It aims to provide the best possible approximation to the social composition, geographical antecedents, religious and ethical values, and political outlook of the earliest members of the Society, setting the ‘Rochdale Pioneers’ firmly in the context of their town and its economy, and of broader developments within the Lancashire ...","PeriodicalId":43028,"journal":{"name":"Labour History Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2015-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3828/LHR.2015.10","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70531482","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Local newspapers such as the Sheffield Guardian provide valuable insight into the development of the Labour Party and the wider left-wing press in early twentieth-century Britain. The Guardian’s ten-year history between 1906 and 1916 reflects how Labour’s political identity evolved in Sheffield, progressing through struggles to preserve Labour’s independence and commitment to socialist principles against co-operation with rival parties, to a more pragmatic and less idealistic attitude that more adequately recognized the everyday concerns of potential working-class supporters. This tussle eventually centred on the Guardian itself as Attercliffe MP Joseph Pointer sought to transform the paper from its status as a niche publication that had previously acted as a polemical platform for old editor and initial creator, Alfred Barton. Consistent interaction with national figures in the Labour Party, particularly Ramsay MacDonald, also reveals the often problematic relationship between the local movement and nati...
{"title":"‘People want newspapers far more than weekly collections of articles’: The Sheffield Guardian, the Labour Party and the left-wing press","authors":"D. Vessey","doi":"10.3828/LHR.2015.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/LHR.2015.11","url":null,"abstract":"Local newspapers such as the Sheffield Guardian provide valuable insight into the development of the Labour Party and the wider left-wing press in early twentieth-century Britain. The Guardian’s ten-year history between 1906 and 1916 reflects how Labour’s political identity evolved in Sheffield, progressing through struggles to preserve Labour’s independence and commitment to socialist principles against co-operation with rival parties, to a more pragmatic and less idealistic attitude that more adequately recognized the everyday concerns of potential working-class supporters. This tussle eventually centred on the Guardian itself as Attercliffe MP Joseph Pointer sought to transform the paper from its status as a niche publication that had previously acted as a polemical platform for old editor and initial creator, Alfred Barton. Consistent interaction with national figures in the Labour Party, particularly Ramsay MacDonald, also reveals the often problematic relationship between the local movement and nati...","PeriodicalId":43028,"journal":{"name":"Labour History Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2015-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3828/LHR.2015.11","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70531489","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Between 1920 and 1950, a large number of British Jews took up sports and recreation within the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB). As members of the Young Communist League (YCL) and the British Workers' Sports Federation (BWSF), Jews engaged in sporting and recreational activities designed to promote communist policy and fraternity and act as a contrast to the commercialism of ‘bourgeois’ sports. Drawing on a broad array of archival and oral history materials, this article documents the growth and nature of Jewish participation in British ‘communist’ sport and leisure. It focuses on two aspects of this involvement. First, it illustrates that sports and socializing often proved to be a key factor in drawing Jews to communism and became a central aspect of a large number of young Jews’ ‘communist’ lifestyles. Many young Jews participated in the movement mainly because it offered the chance to ramble, camp, cycle, dance, or play table tennis. Second, the article demonstrates that involvement in communis...
{"title":"A Means of ‘Escape’? British Jewry, Communism, and Sport, 1920–1950","authors":"D. Dee","doi":"10.3828/LHR.2015.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/LHR.2015.7","url":null,"abstract":"Between 1920 and 1950, a large number of British Jews took up sports and recreation within the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB). As members of the Young Communist League (YCL) and the British Workers' Sports Federation (BWSF), Jews engaged in sporting and recreational activities designed to promote communist policy and fraternity and act as a contrast to the commercialism of ‘bourgeois’ sports. Drawing on a broad array of archival and oral history materials, this article documents the growth and nature of Jewish participation in British ‘communist’ sport and leisure. It focuses on two aspects of this involvement. First, it illustrates that sports and socializing often proved to be a key factor in drawing Jews to communism and became a central aspect of a large number of young Jews’ ‘communist’ lifestyles. Many young Jews participated in the movement mainly because it offered the chance to ramble, camp, cycle, dance, or play table tennis. Second, the article demonstrates that involvement in communis...","PeriodicalId":43028,"journal":{"name":"Labour History Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2015-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3828/LHR.2015.7","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70531218","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
American labour historians have long considered the Order of the Knights of Labor to be one of the most important labour organizations of the late nineteenth century. Yet they have tended to view the Knights as an exclusively American, and perhaps also a Canadian, order. This article argues that the Knights of Labor must be considered as an international and not merely North American institution. This also has implications for the history of international labour organizations, a subject which is almost exclusively concerned with European bodies. In view of the Knights’ activities outside North America, this history must be altered, if not necessarily overturned, if we place the Knights in the history of international labour organization. This article first integrates the Knights within the chronological narrative of international labour organization. It then compares the Order with other international labour institutions of the nineteenth century. In the process, it argues that the Knights of Labor should...
{"title":"The First-and-a-half International: The Knights of Labor and the History of International Labour Organization in the Nineteenth Century","authors":"S. Parfitt","doi":"10.3828/LHR.2015.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/LHR.2015.6","url":null,"abstract":"American labour historians have long considered the Order of the Knights of Labor to be one of the most important labour organizations of the late nineteenth century. Yet they have tended to view the Knights as an exclusively American, and perhaps also a Canadian, order. This article argues that the Knights of Labor must be considered as an international and not merely North American institution. This also has implications for the history of international labour organizations, a subject which is almost exclusively concerned with European bodies. In view of the Knights’ activities outside North America, this history must be altered, if not necessarily overturned, if we place the Knights in the history of international labour organization. This article first integrates the Knights within the chronological narrative of international labour organization. It then compares the Order with other international labour institutions of the nineteenth century. In the process, it argues that the Knights of Labor should...","PeriodicalId":43028,"journal":{"name":"Labour History Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2015-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3828/LHR.2015.6","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70531159","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Archive Report: Labouring in the Un-digitized Chartist Archive","authors":"M. Roberts","doi":"10.3828/LHR.2015.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/LHR.2015.8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43028,"journal":{"name":"Labour History Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2015-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3828/LHR.2015.8","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70531366","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Building on new interest in the Chartists’ attempts to elect their own representatives to Parliament, this essay analyses the methods and strategies through which a Member of Parliament might adopt, and virtually represent, a non-voter constituency. While in many ways Thomas Slingsby Duncombe fits the mould of the gentleman leader in popular politics, unlike many other MPs whose careers briefly intersected with the agendas of the Chartists and other working people, Thomas Slingsby Duncombe explicitly called himself a Chartist. He served his non-voter constituency, Chartists and members of the working classes, by acting as the recognized conduit to Parliament for their petitions and ideas, by travelling the country participating in dialogic communication with non-voters, by maintaining a consistent voting record on issues of interest to the working classes, and, most intriguingly, by crossing class boundaries to serve as a physical representative to the National Central Registration and Election Committee ...
{"title":"Thomas Slingsby Duncombe, the ‘Member for All England’: Representing the Non-voter in the Chartist Decade","authors":"J. Bronstein","doi":"10.3828/LHR.2015.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/LHR.2015.5","url":null,"abstract":"Building on new interest in the Chartists’ attempts to elect their own representatives to Parliament, this essay analyses the methods and strategies through which a Member of Parliament might adopt, and virtually represent, a non-voter constituency. While in many ways Thomas Slingsby Duncombe fits the mould of the gentleman leader in popular politics, unlike many other MPs whose careers briefly intersected with the agendas of the Chartists and other working people, Thomas Slingsby Duncombe explicitly called himself a Chartist. He served his non-voter constituency, Chartists and members of the working classes, by acting as the recognized conduit to Parliament for their petitions and ideas, by travelling the country participating in dialogic communication with non-voters, by maintaining a consistent voting record on issues of interest to the working classes, and, most intriguingly, by crossing class boundaries to serve as a physical representative to the National Central Registration and Election Committee ...","PeriodicalId":43028,"journal":{"name":"Labour History Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2015-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3828/LHR.2015.5","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70531119","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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