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Andrew Charlesworth, David Gilbert, Adrian Randall, Humphrey Southall, and Chris Wrigley – An Atlas of Industrial Protest in Britain 1750-1990
[Macmillan Press 1996]
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Five established experts in the fields of industrial protest and industrial relations have set out to survey the historical geography of industrial protest from the 1750s to the present day. What is revealed, in the numerous maps and accompanying text, is a history of change struck through with more continuity than one might expect.
The role of communities as the bases for mobilisation for collective action over working conditions and wages runs from the textile workers' disputes in the West Country in the 1750s to the 1984/5 miners' strike. In industrial protest and strikes, geography matters.
Through the book one sees the development of trade unionism, from its regional bases to the development of national organisations. In that growth waht is apparent is the tension between the national organisation and the locality.
There is new work presented here for the first time: the sailors' strike og 1768, the machine-breaking riots of 1826, the dock strikes in the immediate post-war period. The book gives a rare insight into industrial relations through the direct collective action of workers, caught up in the transformation of the world's first industrial nation
Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Section A: 1750-1850 by Adrian Randall and Andrew Charlesworth
- Industrial protest: 1750-1850
- 1. Strikes and popular protest in Gloucestershire, 1756-66
- 2. The London sailors' strike of 1768 by Richard Sheldon
- 3. Protests over cotton machinery in Lancashire, 1768-79
- 4. Protests against machinery in the west of England wollen industry, 1776-1802
- 5. The Luddite Disturbances, 1811-12
- 5.1 Luddism in the Midlands
- 5.2 Luddism in Yorkshire
- 5.3 Lancashire Luddism
- 6. The disturbances of 1826 in the manufacturing districts of the north of England by David Walsh
- 7. The General Strike of 1842
- Section B: 1850-1900 by Humphrey Southall
- Industrial protest: 1850-1900
- 8. The records of industrial protest
- 9. Lock-outs and national bargaining in the engineering industry, 1852 and 1897-8
- 10. The nine-hours movement of 1871
- 11. The revolt of the field, 1872-4
- 12. The strike at Bryant and May's match factory, East London, July 1888 by Gillian Rose
- 13. Organising the unskilled: the 1889 dock strike
- 14. The early May days: 1890, 1891 and 1892 by Chris Wrigley
- 15. The coal lock-out of 1893 by Chris Wrigley
- Section C: 1900-39 by David Gilbert
- Industrial protest: 1900-39
- 16. The geography of stikes, 1900-39
- 17. The General Strike of 1926
- 18. The miners' lock-out of 1926
- 19. Little Moscows and radical localities
- 20. The national hunger marches, 1921-36
- 21. The Jarrow Crusade of 1936
- 22. The Harworth dispute of 1936-7
- Section D: 1940-90 by Chris Wrigley
- Industrial protest: 1940-90
- 23. The geography of strikes, 1940-90 by David Gilbert
- 24. Coal disputes, 1940-45
- 25. Unofficial dock strikes and the 1945-51 Labour governments by Jim Phillips
- 26. Strikes in the motor car manufacturing industry
- 27. The winter of discontent: the lorry drivers' strike, January 1979
- 28. The 1984-5 miners' strike
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