Studies in Labour History: Studies in Labour History
About the Book Series
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Centuries of Child Labour: European Experiences from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century
1st Edition
By Marjatta Rahikainen
June 29, 2017
Most historical studies of child labour have tended to confirm a narrative which witnesses the gradual disappearance of child labour in Western Europe as politicians and social reformers introduced successive legislation, gradually removing children from the workplace. This approach fails to ...
Transnational Labour History: Explorations
1st Edition
By Marcel van der Linden
May 16, 2017
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 working classes into a much broader context than has hitherto been the case. Whilst studies focused on individual countries are essential, it is ...
Towards a Comparative History of Coalfield Societies
1st Edition
By Andy Croll, Stefan Berger
March 29, 2017
Few areas of labour history have received as much attention as the coal industry, with miners often finding themselves at the centre of studies on working-class political and industrial history. Yet whilst much has been written about the struggles of miners and their unions in particular countries,...
Women and Work Culture: Britain c.1850–1950
1st Edition
Edited
By Krista Cowman, Louise A. Jackson
March 29, 2017
Women's work has proved to be an important and lively subject of debate for historians. An earlier focus on the pay, conditions and occupational opportunities of predominantly blue-collar working-class women has now been joined by an interest in other social groups (white-collar workers, clerical ...
Jewish Workers and the Labour Movement: A Comparative Study of Amsterdam, London and Paris 1870-1914
1st Edition
By Karin Hofmeester
March 06, 2017
During the late nineteenth century, many Jewish workers and intellectuals considered their integration into the general labour movement as a good way to counter the double disadvantage they suffered in society as Jews and workers. Whilst in Amsterdam this process encountered few obstacles, it was ...
Contested Sites: Commemoration, Memorial and Popular Politics in Nineteenth-Century Britain
1st Edition
By Paul A. Pickering, Alex Tyrrell
February 27, 2017
The second half of the nineteenth century witnessed a new phenomenon in public monuments and civic ornamentation. Whereas in former times public statuary had customarily been reserved for 'warriors and statesmen, kings and rulers of men', a new trend was emerging for towns to commemorate their own ...
The NUM and British Politics: Volume 2: 1969–1995
1st Edition
By Andrew Taylor
November 28, 2016
This book is the second of two volumes examining the place of the National Union of Mineworkers in post-war British politics. Covering the years 1969 to 1995, it charts reactions to the pit closures programme of the late 1950s and 1960s and the development of the NUM's reputation as the union that ...
Female Labour Power: Women Workers’ Influence on Business Practices in the British and American Cotton Industries, 1780–1860
1st Edition
By Janet Greenlees
November 15, 2016
Britain and America were the first two countries with mechanised cotton manufacturing industries, the first major factory systems of production and the first major employers of women outside of the domestic environment. The combination of being new wage earners in the first trans-national industry ...
Gender and Rural Modernity: Farm Women and the Politics of Labor in Germany, 1871–1933
1st Edition
By Elizabeth B. Jones
November 15, 2016
By the end of the First World War, women's labor was viewed by contemporary observers as fundamental to the survival of family farms in Germany and consequently to the nation's economic and social stability. At the same time, however, the overburdening of farm women sparked increasingly ...
The NUM and British Politics: Volume 1: 1944-1968
1st Edition
By Andrew Taylor
November 15, 2016
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 industrial stage. Whilst the nation relied upon coal for its electricity production, domestic heating and railway transportation, the miners and their...
The Invisible Woman: Aspects of Women's Work in Eighteenth-Century Britain
1st Edition
By Isabelle Baudino, Jacques Carré
November 10, 2016
Most social historians writing about working women in pre-nineteenth century Britain have tended to concentrate on fairly large groups, such as factory workers or domestic servants, often in an attempt to reach some conclusions regarding their standards of living and social position. Another ...
Working Out Gender: Perspectives from Labour History
1st Edition
Edited
By Margaret Walsh
November 10, 2016
Working out Gender brings together leading scholars and young researchers to examine the various ways in which gender is currently being used in labour history. Having been a dynamic and contentious category of historical analysis since the mid 1980s gender continues to incite much debate. This ...