This article examines individual and collective memories of pit disasters and other deaths underground within the south Wales coalfield. It argues that – despite often symbolizing mining communitie...
这篇文章探讨了个人和集体的记忆坑灾害和其他死亡地下南威尔士煤田。它认为，尽管经常象征着矿业社区……
{"title":"Death Underground: Mining Accidents and Memory in South Wales, 1913–74","authors":"David W. Selway","doi":"10.3828/LHR.2016.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/LHR.2016.10","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines individual and collective memories of pit disasters and other deaths underground within the south Wales coalfield. It argues that – despite often symbolizing mining communitie...","PeriodicalId":43028,"journal":{"name":"Labour History Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2016-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3828/LHR.2016.10","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70531240","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 workers in Britain have often been portrayed as individualistic and independent – a fragmented and atomised sector of workers who are largely uninterested or incapable of being involved in a common struggle to improve conditions generally. However, the oral histories of a group of workers employed in the building industry in Stevenage during the post-war decades suggest a very different reality. For these workers, collectivism, solidarity, sacrifice, and struggle were the key themes of their experience on construction sites during the 1950s–1970s period. A strong commitment to trade unionism was central to this, and was also a key resource through which they constructed their self-identities.
{"title":"‘Through Trade Unionism you felt a belonging – you belonged’: Collectivism and the Self-Representation of Building Workers in Stevenage New Town","authors":"Charlie McGuire, L. Clarke, C. Wall","doi":"10.3828/LHR.2016.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/LHR.2016.11","url":null,"abstract":"Building workers in Britain have often been portrayed as individualistic and independent – a fragmented and atomised sector of workers who are largely uninterested or incapable of being involved in a common struggle to improve conditions generally. However, the oral histories of a group of workers employed in the building industry in Stevenage during the post-war decades suggest a very different reality. For these workers, collectivism, solidarity, sacrifice, and struggle were the key themes of their experience on construction sites during the 1950s–1970s period. A strong commitment to trade unionism was central to this, and was also a key resource through which they constructed their self-identities.","PeriodicalId":43028,"journal":{"name":"Labour History Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2016-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3828/LHR.2016.11","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70531259","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 explores different examples of British trade union solidarity with Chile; moments of internationalist action which have been very little researched. It uses these moments to examine the British labour movement in the 1970s and argues that national politics was central to this contested internationalist activity. The article draws out the identification with Chilean workers felt by a certain layer of the British labour movement in this period, expressed through the ‘blackings’ in East Kilbride. In contrast, the limitations of this identification are illuminated through the ITT occupation where instead by happenstance the workers stumbled across the history of the Chilean coup.
{"title":"‘A Quarrel of Limited Concern to the People of this Country’? The British Labour Movement and Chile Solidarity","authors":"S. Hirsch","doi":"10.3828/LHR.2016.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/LHR.2016.12","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores different examples of British trade union solidarity with Chile; moments of internationalist action which have been very little researched. It uses these moments to examine the British labour movement in the 1970s and argues that national politics was central to this contested internationalist activity. The article draws out the identification with Chilean workers felt by a certain layer of the British labour movement in this period, expressed through the ‘blackings’ in East Kilbride. In contrast, the limitations of this identification are illuminated through the ITT occupation where instead by happenstance the workers stumbled across the history of the Chilean coup.","PeriodicalId":43028,"journal":{"name":"Labour History Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2016-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3828/LHR.2016.12","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70531298","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":"Roundtable on Asa Briggs’s Legacy: Remembering Asa","authors":"J. Belchem, R. McWilliam, Richard Price, E. Yeo","doi":"10.3828/LHR.2016.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/LHR.2016.13","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43028,"journal":{"name":"Labour History Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70531391","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":"Sam Davies (2 March 1950–27 August 2016): Labour historian and pioneering historical psephologist","authors":"Pat Hudson, D. Macraild","doi":"10.3828/LHR.2016.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/LHR.2016.16","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43028,"journal":{"name":"Labour History Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3828/LHR.2016.16","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70531679","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 examines national history writing by socialist intellectuals in late nineteenth- and twentieth-century Europe, focusing on James Connolly’s Labour in Irish History and Franz Mehring’s ‘Deutsche Geschichte vom Ausgang des Mittelalters’, studying these texts in parallel for how Irish and German ‘national’ history was understood and written by such individuals. Through the hitherto unexplored parallel study of these highly important socialist intellectuals and activists, this article aims to shed light on the significance of a particular form of nationalism as an ideological and political resource for socialists in Europe in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and to highlight the importance of national history writing as a paradigm for historical understanding in this period.
{"title":"Socialist Intellectuals and National(ist) Historiography: The Cases of James Connolly and Franz Mehring","authors":"S. Nagle","doi":"10.3828/LHR.2016.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/LHR.2016.6","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines national history writing by socialist intellectuals in late nineteenth- and twentieth-century Europe, focusing on James Connolly’s Labour in Irish History and Franz Mehring’s ‘Deutsche Geschichte vom Ausgang des Mittelalters’, studying these texts in parallel for how Irish and German ‘national’ history was understood and written by such individuals. Through the hitherto unexplored parallel study of these highly important socialist intellectuals and activists, this article aims to shed light on the significance of a particular form of nationalism as an ideological and political resource for socialists in Europe in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and to highlight the importance of national history writing as a paradigm for historical understanding in this period.","PeriodicalId":43028,"journal":{"name":"Labour History Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2016-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3828/LHR.2016.6","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70532061","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}
A great deal is now known about the age, social class, occupation, and political affiliation of the roughly 2,500 British volunteers in the International Brigades. Far less, however, is known about their personal motivations. This article explores the narratives that have framed our understanding of the British Battalion, and asks how these narratives match up to the complexity of individual volunteers’ lives, before, during, and after the Spanish Civil War. The article focuses on a number of particular volunteers such as Ralph Fox, George Nathan, and Wilfred Macartney, and shows how the study of their supposedly well-known lives can still yield surprising new insights. Above all, these stories warn against any temptation to romanticize the war in Spain and the role of the volunteers: a temptation that has often proved all too irresistible.
{"title":"Ideology, Idealism, and Adventure: Narratives of the British Volunteers in the International Brigades","authors":"T. Buchanan","doi":"10.3828/LHR.2016.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/LHR.2016.7","url":null,"abstract":"A great deal is now known about the age, social class, occupation, and political affiliation of the roughly 2,500 British volunteers in the International Brigades. Far less, however, is known about their personal motivations. This article explores the narratives that have framed our understanding of the British Battalion, and asks how these narratives match up to the complexity of individual volunteers’ lives, before, during, and after the Spanish Civil War. The article focuses on a number of particular volunteers such as Ralph Fox, George Nathan, and Wilfred Macartney, and shows how the study of their supposedly well-known lives can still yield surprising new insights. Above all, these stories warn against any temptation to romanticize the war in Spain and the role of the volunteers: a temptation that has often proved all too irresistible.","PeriodicalId":43028,"journal":{"name":"Labour History Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2016-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3828/LHR.2016.7","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70531699","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 explores the events and issues of narrative and political identity surrounding the relatively unconsidered Trico equal pay strike, which took place over twenty-one weeks in the summer of 1976. It begins by reflecting on how the strike has been framed as either an addendum to the more celebrated Grunwick dispute or ignored altogether in existing historiography. Thereafter, it situates the strike in the context of women’s changing employment patterns and increased trade unionism in post-war Britain and discusses why the strike has received less academic coverage than similar disputes from the period, such as the Ford sewing-machinists’ strike and the Grunwick dispute. Using a range of media coverage and oral histories, it contrasts this with the importance of the strike to participants and the feminist, socialist, and national media. It outlines the distinction between feminist and labour interpretations of its meaning and purpose before finally analysing these interpretations against the persp...
{"title":"The forgotten strike : equality, gender, and class in the Trico equal pay strike.","authors":"G. Stevenson","doi":"10.3828/LHR.2016.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/LHR.2016.8","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores the events and issues of narrative and political identity surrounding the relatively unconsidered Trico equal pay strike, which took place over twenty-one weeks in the summer of 1976. It begins by reflecting on how the strike has been framed as either an addendum to the more celebrated Grunwick dispute or ignored altogether in existing historiography. Thereafter, it situates the strike in the context of women’s changing employment patterns and increased trade unionism in post-war Britain and discusses why the strike has received less academic coverage than similar disputes from the period, such as the Ford sewing-machinists’ strike and the Grunwick dispute. Using a range of media coverage and oral histories, it contrasts this with the importance of the strike to participants and the feminist, socialist, and national media. It outlines the distinction between feminist and labour interpretations of its meaning and purpose before finally analysing these interpretations against the persp...","PeriodicalId":43028,"journal":{"name":"Labour History Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2016-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3828/LHR.2016.8","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70531838","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 charts the evolution of clerical worker organization in the quayside offices of the Port of Liverpool. Although considerable academic research has been undertaken into Registered Dock Worker (RDW) trade unionism in the British dock industry, little emphasis has been placed on the dynamics of clerical staff organization despite these workers constituting a significant proportion of the dock labour force. What follows explores the growth of the Association of Clerical, Technical and Supervisory Staffs (ACTSS) 6/567 Branch in its developmental stage between 1964 and 1972 and the organizational difficulties it was initially faced with. The confrontational stance gradually adopted by the Branch and its stewards is placed in the context of the threat of redundancy and erosion of manning levels arising from the extensive rationalization and modernization of the British and local dock industry more broadly. Furthermore, their relationship with management and RDW colleagues is central to a proper analysis of the complexities of labour relations at the Port of Liverpool during this period. The attitudes and activism of clerical workers at the port is compared and contrasted with established theories of white-collar unionism throughout the article.
{"title":"White-collar workers and industrial militancy: The formation of the ACTSS 6/567 Branch at the Port of Liverpool","authors":"G. Taylor","doi":"10.3828/LHR.2016.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/LHR.2016.3","url":null,"abstract":"This article charts the evolution of clerical worker organization in the quayside offices of the Port of Liverpool. Although considerable academic research has been undertaken into Registered Dock Worker (RDW) trade unionism in the British dock industry, little emphasis has been placed on the dynamics of clerical staff organization despite these workers constituting a significant proportion of the dock labour force. What follows explores the growth of the Association of Clerical, Technical and Supervisory Staffs (ACTSS) 6/567 Branch in its developmental stage between 1964 and 1972 and the organizational difficulties it was initially faced with. The confrontational stance gradually adopted by the Branch and its stewards is placed in the context of the threat of redundancy and erosion of manning levels arising from the extensive rationalization and modernization of the British and local dock industry more broadly. Furthermore, their relationship with management and RDW colleagues is central to a proper analysis of the complexities of labour relations at the Port of Liverpool during this period. The attitudes and activism of clerical workers at the port is compared and contrasted with established theories of white-collar unionism throughout the article.","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.2016.3","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70531823","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 seeks to connect work and politics in the engineering industry in the twentieth century. It is about how shared identities were created from overlapping and conflicting shop-floor interests and the political ambiguities generated by this experience. There is still much to be said for Hobsbawm’s account of how the workplace experience of the engineering craftsmen drew many to revolutionary politics but it captures only part of the story. The experience that led some craftsmen to the Communist Party persuaded others to disengage from politics and some to cut their links with craft altogether, joining the sections set up for the union’s industrial membership. Semi-skilled and unskilled workers were integrated in shop-floor trade unionism but, like the skilled men who opted for industrial membership, left the business of the ‘The Union’ to others. Militant trade unionism and the intensely political internal life of the union masked a deeper political alienation.
{"title":"The Politics of Production in the Engineering Industry","authors":"Kevin Whitston","doi":"10.3828/LHR.2016.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/LHR.2016.1","url":null,"abstract":"This article seeks to connect work and politics in the engineering industry in the twentieth century. It is about how shared identities were created from overlapping and conflicting shop-floor interests and the political ambiguities generated by this experience. There is still much to be said for Hobsbawm’s account of how the workplace experience of the engineering craftsmen drew many to revolutionary politics but it captures only part of the story. The experience that led some craftsmen to the Communist Party persuaded others to disengage from politics and some to cut their links with craft altogether, joining the sections set up for the union’s industrial membership. Semi-skilled and unskilled workers were integrated in shop-floor trade unionism but, like the skilled men who opted for industrial membership, left the business of the ‘The Union’ to others. Militant trade unionism and the intensely political internal life of the union masked a deeper political alienation.","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.2016.1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70531510","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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