Histories of Labour National and International Perspectives

Product Description


These specially commissioned essays by labor historians of international repute provide a complete survey of the global trajectory of labor history. Authoritative and well-researched, these essays consider the early labor history traditions as well as the new conceptions of class, gender, ethnicity, culture, community, and power. The contributors analyze key debates, question dominant paradigms, acknowledge minority critiques, and consider future directions. This book will be of interest to historians of working-class political parties and organizations, to students of trade unions and industrial conflict, and to social scientists interested in social and political protest.


Review


"The essays collected in this volume vividly reveal the social and political inspirations that gave rise to a creative upsurge of interest in the history of working people half a century ago . . . . The reshaping of the global economy that has marked the most recent decades has also led to new ways of conceptualizing the working class itself."  David Mongomery, emeritus professor of history, Yale University –David Mongomery, emeritus professor of history, Yale University


About the Author



Joan Allen is an senior lecturer in history and chair of the history department at the University of Newcastle.
Alan Campbell is a retired university lecturer, a honorary senior fellow, and a former reader in labor and social history at the University of Liverpool.
Eric Hobsbawm is a historian and the author of
Companion of Honour.
John McIlroy is a professor of employment relations at Middlesex University.