The Winter of Discontent

Tara Martin López

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Labour History | nr. 4
• In the midst of the freezing winter of 1978-79, more than 2,000 strikes, infamously coined the "Winter of Discontent," erupted across Britain as worke... Lees meer

Fighting Deindustrialisation

Andy Clark

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Labour History | nr. 19
• In Fighting Deindustrialisation , Andy Clark outlines and examines one of the most significant and under-researched periods in modern Scottish labour ... Lees meer

The Knights Errant of Anarchy

Pietro Di Paola

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Labour History | nr. 2
• The political diaspora played a major part in the history of the international anarchist movement: in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuri... Lees meer

Contested Sites

Paul a Pickering, Alex Tyrrell

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Labour History
• The second half of the nineteenth century witnessed a new phenomenon in public monuments and civic ornamentation. Whereas in former times public statu... Lees meer

The Invisible Woman

Isabelle Baudino, Jacques Carré

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Labour History
• Most social historians writing about working women in pre-nineteenth century Britain have tended to concentrate on fairly large groups, such as factor... Lees meer

Transnational Radicalism and the Connected Lives of Tom Mann and Robert Samuel Ross

Neville Kirk

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Labour History | nr. 8
• This is an original study of the connected lives of two important socialists, Tom Mann (1856-1941) and Robert Samuel 'Bob' Ross (1873-1931). Born in B... Lees meer

Contested Sites

Paul a Pickering, Alex Tyrrell

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Labour History
• The second half of the nineteenth century witnessed a new phenomenon in public monuments and civic ornamentation. Whereas in former times public statu... Lees meer

Regulating Health and Safety in the British Mining Industries, 1800-1914

Catherine Mills

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Labour History
• This book explores the emergence and growth of state responsibility for safer and healthier working practices in British mining and the responses of l... Lees meer

Transnational Labour History

Marcel Van Der Linden

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Labour History
• There has been a growing recognition amongst scholars that labour historians need to look beyond national borders in order to place the history of the... Lees meer

In the Footsteps of Flora Tristan

Máire Fedelma Cross

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Labour History
• In the Footsteps of Flora Tristan is the first ever study devoted to Jules Puech (1879-1957), and is a double biography that examines his life's work ... Lees meer

Early Trade Unionism

Malcolm Chase

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Labour History
• Once the heartland of British labour history, trade unionism has been marginalised in much recent scholarship. In a critical survey from the earliest ... Lees meer

Child Workers in England, 1780-1820

Katrina Honeyman

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Labour History
• A major contribution to studies in child labour, this book explores the contribution of child workers and the particular importance of the parish appr... Lees meer

The Global Challenge of Peace

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Labour History
• This book scrutinizes the events of 1919 from below: the global underside of the Wilsonian moment. During 1919 the Great Powers redrew the map of the ... Lees meer

Social Relations in the Estate Villages of Mecklenburg C.1880-1924

Simon Constantine

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Labour History
• Research on late nineteenth and early twentieth century German society has concentrated overwhelmingly on life in the cities. By contrast, and despite... Lees meer

A Fair Day's Wage for a Fair Day's Work?

Sheila Blackburn

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Labour History
• The nature of sweating and the origins of low pay legislation are of fundamental social, economic and moral importance. Although difficult to define, ... Lees meer

Female Labour Power

Janet Greenlees

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Labour History
• Britain and America were the first two countries with mechanised cotton manufacturing industries, the first major factory systems of production and th... Lees meer

Regulating Health and Safety in the British Mining Industries, 1800 1914

Catherine Mills

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Labour History
• This book explores the emergence and growth of state responsibility for safer and healthier working practices in British mining and the responses of l... Lees meer

Miners' Lung

Arthur McIvor, Ronald Johnston

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Labour History
• Arthur McIvor and Ronald Johnston explore the experience of coal miners' lung diseases and the attempts at voluntary and legal control of dusty condit... Lees meer

Centuries of Child Labour

Marjatta Rahikainen

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Labour History
• Most historical studies of child labour have tended to confirm a narrative which witnesses the gradual disappearance of child labour in Western Europe... Lees meer

The Num and British Politics

Andrew Taylor

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Labour History
• From its formation in 1944, the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) was one of the most powerful and important players on the British political and in... Lees meer

Labour and the Caucus

James Owen

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Labour History | nr. 3
• Labour and the Caucus provides a new, innovative pre-history of the Labour party. In the two decades following the Second Reform Act there was a susta... Lees meer

Working Out Gender

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Labour History
• Working out Gender brings together leading scholars and young researchers to examine the various ways in which gender is currently being used in labou... Lees meer

Socialism and the Diasporic 'Other'

Daniel Renshaw

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Labour History | nr. 11
• The late-Victorian and Edwardian East End was an area not only defined by its poverty and destitution, but also by its ethnic and religious diversity.... Lees meer

A Fair Day's Wage for a Fair Day's Work?

Sheila Blackburn

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Labour History
• The nature of sweating and the origins of low pay legislation are of fundamental social, economic and moral importance. Although difficult to define, ... Lees meer