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MP-MTB University of Manitoba Press I Will Live for Both of Us A History of Colonialism Uranium Mining and Inuit Resistance

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Liverpool University Press Shipbuilding in the United Kingdom in the Ninete

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Liverpool University Press The Globalisation of the Oceans Containerisation

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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A History of Broadcasting in the United States

Book SynopsisThis powerful history of broadcasting in the United States goes beyond traditional accounts to explore the field''s important social, political, and cultural ramifications. It examines how broadcasting has been organized as a business throughout much of the 20th century, and focuses on the aesthetics of programming over the years Surveys four key broadcasting periods from 1921 to 1996, drawing on a range of new sources to examine recent changes in the field, including coverage of the recent impact of cable TV and home video Includes new data from collections at the Library of Congress and the Library of American Broadcasting Ideal for anyone seeking a readable history of the field, offering the most current coverage available Trade Review"The book is wonderfully punctuated with rare photographs from the Library of American Broadcasting. The organization easily guides the reader through the narrative. A lot of reference source material comes from the periodicals and publications of the time. In addition to the rich collection at the Maryland Library of American Broadcasting collection, Gomery ventured into other national archives." (Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, September 2010) “The book remains distinctive on several levels. It is a somewhat provocative survey that in 357 pages effectively renders broadcasting’s first sixty years.” (Journalism History, Spring 2009) "Douglas Gomery is a master of the historical archive. This is a thoroughly researched, eminently readable book, written in a very accessible and entertaining style that holds the attention of readers, while also providing new information and documentation for scholars. A must read for media historians and media history courses." ( Richard Butsch, author of The Making of American Audiences) “Gomery [is] a leading historian … .Here’s a history worth reading. Producers, undergraduates in media studies, and fans of media history should be avid readers." ( Television Quarterly)Table of ContentsList of Illustrations vi Preface: Why a History of Broadcasting in the USA? ix Acknowledgments xvii Introduction: Broadcasting’s Beginning: The Big Bang 1 Part I: The Network Radio Era, 1921–1950 1 1. Industrial Innovation and Diffusion: The Radio Networks 13 2. Radio’s Social, Cultural, and Political Impact: The First Mass Medium 38 3. The Development of a New Aesthetic: Sounds 71 Part II: Transition, 1945–1957 105 4. TV Replaces Radio in the Living Room 107 5. Radio Reinvents Itself: Top 40 and Beyond 142 Part III: Network Television Dominates, 1958–1982 165 6. CBS, NBC, and ABC Covering the USA 167 7. Network TV’s Social, Cultural, and Political Impact 197 8. The Genre Machine: From Maverick to M*A*S*H 231 Part IV: Contemporary History, 1982–1996 279 9. Radio: The FM Era 281 10. Television: Remote Control Paradise 299 Epilogue: Still a Broadcasting Nation: 1996 and into the Future 338 Appendix: Sorry, Wrong Number 346 Index 353

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Cornell University Press The UAWs Southern Gamble

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Book SynopsisThe UAW''s Southern Gamble is the first in-depth assessment of the United Auto Workers'' efforts to organize foreign vehicle plants (Daimler-Chrysler, Mercedes-Benz, Nissan, and Volkswagen) in the American South since 1989, an era when union membership declined precipitously. Stephen J. Silvia chronicles transnational union cooperation between the UAW and its counterparts in Brazil, France, Germany, and Japan and documents the development of employer strategies that have proven increasingly effective at thwarting unionization.Silvia shows that when organizing, unions must now fight on three fronts: at the worksite; in the corporate boardroom; and in the political realm. The UAW''s Southern Gamble makes clear that the UAW''s failed campaigns in the South can teach hard-won lessons about challenging the structural and legal roadblocks to union participation and effectively organizing workers within and beyond the auto industry.

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Stanford University Press Poisonous Pandas: Chinese Cigarette Manufacturing

Book SynopsisA favorite icon for cigarette manufacturers across China since the mid-twentieth century has been the panda, with factories from Shanghai to Sichuan using cuddly cliché to market tobacco products. The proliferation of panda-branded cigarettes coincides with profound, yet poorly appreciated, shifts in the worldwide tobacco trade. Over the last fifty years, transnational tobacco companies and their allies have fueled a tripling of the world's annual consumption of cigarettes. At the forefront is the China National Tobacco Corporation, now producing forty percent of cigarettes sold globally. What's enabled the manufacturing of cigarettes in China to flourish since the time of Mao and to prosper even amidst public health condemnation of smoking? In Poisonous Pandas, an interdisciplinary group of scholars comes together to tell that story. They offer novel portraits of people within the Chinese polity—government leaders, scientists, tax officials, artists, museum curators, and soldiers—who have experimentally revamped the country's pre-Communist cigarette supply chain and fitfully expanded its political, economic, and cultural influence. These portraits cut against the grain of what contemporary tobacco-control experts typically study, opening a vital new window on tobacco—the single largest cause of preventable death worldwide today. Trade Review"Poisonous Pandas is a stupendous and long overdue achievement. From the Communist Base areas in the 30s and 40s, through the Great Leap, the early reform period and into the present, we learn how the cigarette in China has been developed, represented in advertising and popular culture, gendered and sexed, mythologized and celebrated, argued and fought over. Here, cigarettes become agents of capital and enormous profit, ubiquitous in nearly all aspects of life, and ultimately monstrous. This painstaking unmasking of one of the world's greatest death machines sets a new bar for the study of health regimes and afflicted bodies, for the very study of life and death, in China and beyond."—Ralph Litzinger, Duke University"This important volume documents the historical and cultural foundations of the world's most massive epidemic: the devastating impact of cigarette smoking in China today. Focusing on cigarette production and consumption over the last century, the authors and editors show how deeply embedded tobacco is in the most basic economic and cultural structures of contemporary China, and how difficult it will be to excise this State-run industry and its addictive, deadly product. Nonetheless, they offer opportunities and hope for stemming this global tragedy."—Allan M. Brandt, Harvard University, author, The Cigarette Century"This book is a tour de force—delivering insights on how the world's largest tobacco corporation has emerged, provocations for reimagining public health interventions, and a scholarly platform for future research."—Hu Dayi, Director, Chinese Association on Tobacco Control, Former President, Chinese Society of Cardiology"This is a factually detailed, erudite, and imperative historical record of tobacco in China, compiled by experts in the field from both inside and outside China. It is at times technical, and at other times personal, poignant and philosophical. It does not mince its words as it looks both backwards and forwards in time."—Dr Judith Mackay, Senior Advisor, Vital Strategies/Bloomberg Initiative, Director, Asian Consultancy on Tobacco Control"Poisonous Pandas does a brilliant job of untangling the nightmare of cigarette manufacturing in China—for the first time, readers see clearly how the industry was built, and how much damage it continues to do to the world's most populous nation."—Peter Hessler, The New Yorker, author, River Town and Oracle Bones"Part cultural and social history of tobacco in China and part backdrop to the urgent health crisis it has caused, this is a terrific collaboration exploring the social, cultural, political, and fiscal arrangements of one of the most deadly products in one of the world's most populous nations. It is the most definitive and comprehensive study of China's tobacco problem to date."—Vincanne Adams, Professor, Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine, University of California San Francisco"[T]he authors of this groundbreaking volume have produced a wide-ranging and highly readable collection of papers on the political economy of Chinese cigarette manufacturing over the past 100 years...Kohrman and co-authors take a more critical approach to understanding why the Chinese Government has historically elevated this deadly product to unprecedented heights."––Kelley Lee, The Lancet

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Stanford University Press Poisonous Pandas: Chinese Cigarette Manufacturing

Book SynopsisA favorite icon for cigarette manufacturers across China since the mid-twentieth century has been the panda, with factories from Shanghai to Sichuan using cuddly cliché to market tobacco products. The proliferation of panda-branded cigarettes coincides with profound, yet poorly appreciated, shifts in the worldwide tobacco trade. Over the last fifty years, transnational tobacco companies and their allies have fueled a tripling of the world's annual consumption of cigarettes. At the forefront is the China National Tobacco Corporation, now producing forty percent of cigarettes sold globally. What's enabled the manufacturing of cigarettes in China to flourish since the time of Mao and to prosper even amidst public health condemnation of smoking? In Poisonous Pandas, an interdisciplinary group of scholars comes together to tell that story. They offer novel portraits of people within the Chinese polity—government leaders, scientists, tax officials, artists, museum curators, and soldiers—who have experimentally revamped the country's pre-Communist cigarette supply chain and fitfully expanded its political, economic, and cultural influence. These portraits cut against the grain of what contemporary tobacco-control experts typically study, opening a vital new window on tobacco—the single largest cause of preventable death worldwide today. Trade Review"Poisonous Pandas is a stupendous and long overdue achievement. From the Communist Base areas in the 30s and 40s, through the Great Leap, the early reform period and into the present, we learn how the cigarette in China has been developed, represented in advertising and popular culture, gendered and sexed, mythologized and celebrated, argued and fought over. Here, cigarettes become agents of capital and enormous profit, ubiquitous in nearly all aspects of life, and ultimately monstrous. This painstaking unmasking of one of the world's greatest death machines sets a new bar for the study of health regimes and afflicted bodies, for the very study of life and death, in China and beyond."—Ralph Litzinger, Duke University"This important volume documents the historical and cultural foundations of the world's most massive epidemic: the devastating impact of cigarette smoking in China today. Focusing on cigarette production and consumption over the last century, the authors and editors show how deeply embedded tobacco is in the most basic economic and cultural structures of contemporary China, and how difficult it will be to excise this State-run industry and its addictive, deadly product. Nonetheless, they offer opportunities and hope for stemming this global tragedy."—Allan M. Brandt, Harvard University, author, The Cigarette Century"This book is a tour de force—delivering insights on how the world's largest tobacco corporation has emerged, provocations for reimagining public health interventions, and a scholarly platform for future research."—Hu Dayi, Director, Chinese Association on Tobacco Control, Former President, Chinese Society of Cardiology"This is a factually detailed, erudite, and imperative historical record of tobacco in China, compiled by experts in the field from both inside and outside China. It is at times technical, and at other times personal, poignant and philosophical. It does not mince its words as it looks both backwards and forwards in time."—Dr Judith Mackay, Senior Advisor, Vital Strategies/Bloomberg Initiative, Director, Asian Consultancy on Tobacco Control"Poisonous Pandas does a brilliant job of untangling the nightmare of cigarette manufacturing in China—for the first time, readers see clearly how the industry was built, and how much damage it continues to do to the world's most populous nation."—Peter Hessler, The New Yorker, author, River Town and Oracle Bones"Part cultural and social history of tobacco in China and part backdrop to the urgent health crisis it has caused, this is a terrific collaboration exploring the social, cultural, political, and fiscal arrangements of one of the most deadly products in one of the world's most populous nations. It is the most definitive and comprehensive study of China's tobacco problem to date."—Vincanne Adams, Professor, Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine, University of California San Francisco"[T]he authors of this groundbreaking volume have produced a wide-ranging and highly readable collection of papers on the political economy of Chinese cigarette manufacturing over the past 100 years...Kohrman and co-authors take a more critical approach to understanding why the Chinese Government has historically elevated this deadly product to unprecedented heights."––Kelley Lee, The Lancet

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Stanford University Press Empires of Coal: Fueling China’s Entry into the

Book SynopsisFrom 1868–1872, German geologist Ferdinand von Richthofen went on an expedition to China. His reports on what he found there would transform Western interest in China from the land of porcelain and tea to a repository of immense coal reserves. By the 1890s, European and American powers and the Qing state and local elites battled for control over the rights to these valuable mineral deposits. As coal went from a useful commodity to the essential fuel of industrialization, this vast natural resource would prove integral to the struggle for political control of China. Geology served both as the handmaiden to European imperialism and the rallying point of Chinese resistance to Western encroachment. In the late nineteenth century both foreign powers and the Chinese viewed control over mineral resources as the key to modernization and industrialization. When the first China Geological Survey began work in the 1910s, conceptions of natural resources had already shifted, and the Qing state expanded its control over mining rights, setting the precedent for the subsequent Republican and People's Republic of China regimes. In Empires of Coal, Shellen Xiao Wu argues that the changes specific to the late Qing were part of global trends in the nineteenth century, when the rise of science and industrialization destabilized global systems and caused widespread unrest and the toppling of ruling regimes around the world. Trade Review"Historian Wu has written a brilliant and original cultural history of industrialization in late Qing China . . . Thoroughly grounded in the archives and research in both Chinese and German sources (no mean feat), the book examines the powerful interactions of Chinese and Western entrepreneurs and Qing and Western officials in creating an industrial China . . . Highly recommended" -- J. Roger * CHOICE *"Shellen Wu's new book is a fascinating and timely contribution to the histories of China . . . Empires of Coal looks carefully at the importance of mining [...] to the political economy of late imperial China . . . It will be required reading for anyone interested in the entanglement of science, technology, and modernity in global history." -- Carla Nappi * New Books in East Asian Studies *"Refreshing and subtle, this book's engagement with issues of imperialism, China's relationship to European science, and environmental history provides a fascinating reminder of the tight linkages between them all." -- Joanna Waley-Cohen * NYU Shanghai *"This book narrates how, from the 1860s to the 1910s, China entered into a modern, industrializing world driven by fossil fuels. The topic could not carry greater contemporary relevance for China and the world, and only a few other historians have written on it in the past." -- Micah Muscolino * Oxford University *"Wu's study...places China's nineteenth-century development in a global context and adds comparative value to its historical experience." -- Joanna Waley-Cohen * The English Historical Review *"[An] interesting and important set of insights into the history of coal mining, coal imperialism, and the science and political economy of coal in China....[This study] adds a fascinating and novel layer of analysis of German imperialism and engineering at work in China...that has been missing in many of the wider discussions of imperialism and global transformations during the time period." -- Jack Patrick Hayes * Pacific Affairs *Table of ContentsContents and Abstracts1Fueling Industrialization in the Age of Coal chapter abstractIn order to understand how and why a momentous change of the Chinese worldview occurred in the late nineteenth century, chapter 1 begins with a discussion of pre-modern forms of geological knowledge in China 2Ferdinand von Richthofen and the Geology of Imperialism chapter abstractChapter Two examines Richthofen's contributions to Chinese views of its own mineral resources. Richthofen's career spanned the zenith of European colonial expansion in the nineteenth century, concomitant with the golden age of the railroads and steamers. His academic work on China connected the geography of the eastern seaboard to the Central Asian landmass. Yet his enduring legacy in China remains his observations of Chinese mines and estimates of Chinese mineral potential. 3Lost and Found in Translation: Geology, Mining, and the Search for Wealth and Power chapter abstractChapter Three discusses missionary translations of geology works in the nineteenth century. In the act of translation, geology became further entangled with the role of science in imperialism and the wealth and power of the West. Nineteenth century missionary translations of science in the treaty ports tell only a small part of the story. Focusing on the deficiencies of these translations would only miss the greater accomplishment of these foreign and Chinese translators of Western science texts as cultural intermediaries. These late nineteenth century translations introduced the field of geology to the Chinese public, but in the tumultuous political and economic environment of the late Qing period it was mining and control over mining rights that added urgency to the adoption of modern geology. 4Engineers as the Agents of Science and Empire, 1886-1914 chapter abstractChapter Four examines the large-scale modern enterprises opened in the interior by the Chinese themselves, including influential government figures such as Li Hongzhang and Zhang Zhidong. This chapter focuses on the people who made possible the expansion of the first modern Chinese industries while also promoting European influence on China's future development—engineers who carried their skills from technical schools and mining academies in Europe to the far reaches of empire. The German engineers who began working for Chinese industries transitioned easily when Germany acquired a leasehold in Shandong province in 1898. 5Nations, Empires, and Mining Rights (1895-1911) chapter abstractChapter Five examines the late Qing reform of mining laws and the nation-wide movement to reclaim mining rights. In particular, this chapter uses as a case study the example of two German mining companies in Shandong during the colonial period (1898-1914), and the Chinese response to the foreign scramble for mining concessions. Like the geological surveys taking place across the globe during nineteenth and twentieth centuries, mining regulations became a point of tension between colonizers and the colonized. The Chinese promulgation of mining regulations, based on Japanese and European precedents, demonstrate that by the last years of the Qing dynasty, they had joined the ranks of nations that viewed mineral resources as the key to wealth and power. 6Geology in the Age of Imperialism chapter abstractChapter Six examines continuities and changes in Chinese views on mining from the imperial period through the Republican era. During the late Qing period, control over natural resources became a symbol of sovereignty against foreign encroachment. The study of geology became a means of resistance against imperialism. In the Chinese discourse the positivist views of Western geology in this period transformed into a matter of anti-imperialist struggle with strong social Darwinian undertones. Republican era geologists actively tried to construct a history of geology motivated by Han nationalism, with the efforts of the late-Qing period largely erased from their revision. 7Epilogue chapter abstractThis chapter discusses the implications of the book and its significance for the literature on Chinese industrialization and modern Chinese history.

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University of Massachusetts Press The Education of Things: Mechanical Literacy in

Book SynopsisBy the close of the eighteenth century, learning to read and write became closely associated with learning about the material world, and a vast array of games and books from the era taught children how to comprehend the physical world of “things.” Examining a diverse archive of historical periodicals, grammar books, toys, machinery displays, and literature from Maria Edgeworth, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Anna Letitia Barbauld, The Education of Things attests that material culture has long been central to children’s literature. Elizabeth Massa Hoiem argues that the combination of reading and writing with manual tinkering and scientific observation promoted in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain produced new forms of “mechanical literacy,” competencies that were essential in an industrial era. As work was repositioned as play, wealthy children were encouraged to do tasks in the classroom that poor children performed for wages, while working-class children honed skills that would be crucial to their social advancement as adults.Trade ReviewReading and learning about the physical world go hand in hand in Hoiem’s fascinating archive, and her focus on working-class children as well as middle-class ones redresses the bias toward the latter in much children’s literature criticism." - Hannah Field, author of Playing with the Book: Victorian Movable Picture Books and the Child Reader"The Education of Things is an important contribution to the study of children’s literature and the history of education—as well as to histories of object-based knowledge. Hoiem’s creative, multidisciplinary approach makes connections among fields that are often considered separately, making this a particularly exciting and novel intervention." - Sarah Anne Carter, author of Object Lessons: How Nineteenth-Century Americans Learned to Make Sense of the Material World

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University Press of Mississippi Three Years in Wonderland: The Disney Brothers, C. V. Wood, and the Making of the Great American Theme Park

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Book SynopsisWhile the success of Disneyland is largely credited to Walt and Roy Disney, there was a third, mostly forgotten dynamo instrumental to the development of the park - fast-talking Texan C. V. Wood. Three Years in Wonderland presents the never-before-told, full story of ""the happiest place on earth."" Using information from over one hundred unpublished interviews, Todd James Pierce lays down the arc of Disneyland's development from an idea to a paragon of entertainment.In the early 1950s, the Disney brothers hired Wood and his team to develop a feasibility study for an amusement park Walt wanted to build in southern California. ""Woody"" quickly became a central figure. In 1954, Roy Disney hired him as Disneyland's first official employee, its first general manager, and appointed him vice president of Disneyland, Inc., where his authority was exceeded only by Walt. A brilliant project manager, Wood was also a con man of sorts. Previously, he had forged his university diploma. A smooth-talker drawn to Hollywood, the first general manager of Disneyland valued money over art. As relations soured between Wood and the Disney brothers, Wood found creative ways to increase his income, leveraging his position for personal fame. Eventually, tensions at the Disney park reached a boiling point, with Walt demanding he be fired.In compelling detail, Three Years in Wonderland lays out the struggles and rewards of building the world's first cinematic theme park and convincing the American public that a $17 million amusement park was the ideal place for a family vacation. The early experience of Walt Disney, Roy Disney, and C. V. Wood is one of the most captivating untold stories in the history of Hollywood. Pierce interviewed dozens of individuals who enjoyed long careers at the Walt Disney Company as well as dozens of individuals who - like C. V. Wood - helped develop the park but then left the company for good once the park was finished. Through much research and many interviews, Three Years in Wonderland offers readers a rare opportunity to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the men and women who built the best-known theme park in the world.

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Bucknell University Press,U.S. Founders of the Future: The Science and Industry

Book SynopsisIn this ambitious new interdisciplinary study, Useche proposes the metaphor of the social foundry to parse how industrialization informed and shaped cultural and national discourses in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Spain. Across a variety of texts, Spanish writers, scientists, educators, and politicians appropriated the new economies of industrial production—particularly its emphasis on the human capacity to transform reality through energy and work—to produce new conceptual frameworks that changed their vision of the future. These influences soon appeared in plans to enhance the nation’s productivity, justify systems of class stratification and labor exploitation, or suggest state organizational improvements. This fresh look at canonical writers such as Emilia Pardo Bazán, Concha Espina, Benito Pérez Galdós, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, and José Echegaray as well as lesser known authors offers close readings of their work as it reflected the complexity of Spain’s process of modernization. Trade Review"Founders of the Future establishes Spain as a vital player in late nineteenth-century discussions of modernization, industrialization, and energy. With a background in engineering and a fine ear for language, Óscar Iván Useche looks beyond well-known works to show how metaphors in popular science writing shaped attitudes toward energy, industrial production, and Spain’s possibilities." -- Laura Otis * author of Banned Emotions: How Metaphors Can Shape What People Feel *"Each chapter of this finely-crafted book paints a lucid picture of the productive incorporation of industrial language and imagery into the discursive fabric of fin-de-siglo Spanish society. Researchers, historians, and scholars from diverse disciplines and theoretical backgrounds will no doubt find Useche’s book a rich source for reflection." -- Nicolás Fernández-Medina * author of Life Embodied: The Promise of Vital Force in Spanish Modernity *"At the crossroads of industry and ideology, Useche reveals the 'semiological engine' of a paradigm shift in fin-de-siglo Spain that spans the discursive horizon of modernization and progress. Attentive to economics, education, labor practices, technology, and the environment, this study explores how coetaneous, often contradictory currents of thought confronted change through new ways of imagining a symbolic advancement that was at once liberating and threatening for Spain’s tomorrow." -- Travis Landry * editor of The Fruits of the Struggle in Diplomacy and War: Moroccan Ambassador al-Ghazzal and His Di *"Founders of the Future uncovers the new logic in Spain’s late nineteenth-century industrialization and modernization. It offers a unique perspective for mapping how different sectors of Spanish society viewed technological innovation, a 'social foundry' whence to forge regenerative approaches to Spain’s social, political, and economic problems." -- Dale Pratt * author of Signs of Science: Literature, Science and Spanish Modernity Since 1868 *Table of ContentsNote on TranslationsIntroduction: Reaching Out into the Future1 The Social Foundry2 Economy and Other Matters of State3 The Educational Engine4 Social Engineering5 Technologies of Mass Diffusion6 Industrial FootprintConclusion: The Unreachable FutureAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

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NewSouth Publishing The Snowy: A History

Book SynopsisThe Snowy: A History tells the extraordinary story of the mostly migrant workforce who built one of the world’s engineering marvels.This classic, prize-winning account of the remarkable Snowy Scheme is available again for the 70th anniversary of this epic nation-building project. The Snowy Scheme was an extraordinary engineering feat carried out over twenty-five years from 1949 to 1974, one that drove rivers through tunnels built through the Australian alps, irrigated the dry inland and generated energy for the densely populated east coast.The Snowy Mountains Scheme was also a site of post-war social engineering that helped create a diverse multicultural nation. Siobhan McHugh’s in-depth interviews with those who were there at the time reveals the human stories of migrant workers, high country locals, politicians and engineers. It also examines the difficult and dangerous aspects of such a major construction in which 121 men lost their lives. Rich and evocative, this sweeping narrative tells stories of love, endurance, tragedy and hard work during a transformative time. Includes 40 iconic images of the construction of the Snowy Hydro Scheme. Redesigned and updated, the book is available for the 70th anniversary of the launch of the Scheme. Book now includes more detail on the environmental impacts of the scheme.

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Liverpool University Press Historical Studies in Industrial Relations,

Book SynopsisHistorical Studies in Industrial Relations was established in 1996 by the Centre for Industrial Relations, Keele University, to provide an outlet for, and to stimulate an interest in, historical work in the field of industrial relations and the history of industrial relations thought. Content broadly covers the employment relationship and economic, social and political factors surrounding it – such as labour markets, union and employer policies and organization, the law, and gender and ethnicity. Articles with an explicit political dimension, particularly recognising divisions within the working class and within workers’ organizations, will be encouraged, as will historical work on labour law.Table of Contents Sian Moore, 'Gender, the Labour Process and Women’s Mobilization in the Industrialization of the Bradford Worsted Industry'. Paul Smith, 'Unions “naked and unprotected at the altar of the common law”. Inducement of breach of contract of employment: South Wales Miners’ Federation and Others v Glamorgan Coal Co. and Others [1905]'. Appendix. Documents: Sir Charles Dilke and Charles Percy Sanger on the Trade Disputes Bills of 1903. Jim Phillips, ‘Containing, Isolating, and Defeating the Miners: The UK Cabinet Ministerial Group on Coal and the Three Phases of the 1984–1985 Strike.’ Peter Dorey, ‘The Stepping Stones Programme: The Conservative Party’s Struggle to Develop a Trade-Union Policy, 1975–1979.’ Peter Ackers, ‘The Donovan Commission (1965–1968) and the Clegg Version: An Inside View. William Brown and Jon Trevor: D. F. Schloss, Methods of Industrial Remuneration (1892). Michael Gold, ‘Missed Opportunities and Fudged Outcomes’: A Review of Consultation at Work: Regulation and Practice’. Ben Jackson, ‘Neoliberalism in Our Time: A Review Essay’. Dave Lyddon, ‘Health and Safely at Work: A Review Essay’. Book Reviews

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Liverpool University Press Historical Studies in Industrial Relations,

Book SynopsisHistorical Studies in Industrial Relations was established in 1996 by the Centre for Industrial Relations, Keele University, to provide an outlet for, and to stimulate an interest in, historical work in the field of industrial relations and the history of industrial relations thought. Content broadly covers the employment relationship and economic, social and political factors surrounding it – such as labour markets, union and employer policies and organization, the law, and gender and ethnicity. Articles with an explicit political dimension, particularly recognising divisions within the working class and within workers’ organizations, will be encouraged, as will historical work on labour law.

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Liverpool University Press Historical Studies in Industrial Relations,

Book SynopsisHistorical Studies in Industrial Relations was established in 1996 by the Centre for Industrial Relations, Keele University, to provide an outlet for, and to stimulate an interest in, historical work in the field of industrial relations and the history of industrial relations thought. Content broadly covers the employment relationship and economic, social and political factors surrounding it – such as labour markets, union and employer policies and organization, the law, and gender and ethnicity. Articles with an explicit political dimension, particularly recognising divisions within the working class and within workers’ organizations, will be encouraged, as will historical work on labour law.Table of ContentsArticlesCaroline Dick - Testing the Fabric: Prescribing Female Dress in Australian Early Living-Wage CasesAdrian Williamson - The Trade Disputes and Trade Unions Act 1927 ReconsideredRoger Seifert and Andrew Hambler - Wearing the Turban: The 1967–1969 Sikh Bus Drivers’ Dispute in WolverhamptonAlan Tuckman and Herman Knudsen - The Success and Failings of UK Work-Ins and Sit-Ins in the 1970s: Briant Colour Printing and Imperial TypewritersStephen Mustchin - Conflict, Mobilization, and Deindustrialization: The 1980 Gardner Strike and OccupationPeter Dorey - Weakening the Trade Unions, One Step at a Time: The Thatcher Governments’ Strategy for the Reform of Trade-Union Law, 1979–1984Symposium: The Oxford School of Industrial Relations: Fifty Years after the 1965–1968 Donovan CommissionPeter Ackers - Introduction: Who Were the Oxford School and Why Did They Matter?George Bain - A Canadian’s Reflections on the Oxford SchoolWilliam Brown - The Oxford School at DonovanJohn Edmonds - The Donovan Commission: Were We in the Trade Unions Too Short-Sighted?Sue Ferns - Changing Gender Roles and Public-Policy Perspectives since Donovan: A Trade-Union ViewDocumentTony Topham - A Difficult Childhood: The Formative Years of the Transport and General Workers’ UnionBook ReviewsPaul Edwards - Wolfgang Streeck, Buying Time: The Delayed Crisis of Democratic CapitalismRebecca Zahn - Ruth Dukes, The Labour Constitution: The Enduring Idea of Labour LawAbstracts

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Boydell & Brewer Ltd The Medieval Clothier

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Book SynopsisA clear and accessibly written guide to the medieval cloth-making trade in England. Cloth-making became England's leading industry in the late Middle Ages; clothiers co-ordinated its different stages, in some cases carrying out the processes themselves, and found markets for their finished cloth, selling to merchants, drapers and other traders. While many clothiers were of only modest status or "jacks of all trades", a handful of individuals amassed huge fortunes through the trade, becoming the multi-millionaires of their day. This book offers the first recent survey of this hugely important and significant trade and its practitioners, examining the whole range of clothiers across different areas of England, and exploring their impact within the industry andin their wider communities. Alongside the mechanics of the trade, it considers clothiers as entrepreneurs and early capitalists, employing workers and even establishing early factories; it also looks at their family backgrounds and their roles as patrons of church rebuilding and charitable activities. It is completed with extracts from clothiers' wills and a gazetteer of places to visit, making the book invaluable to academics, students, and local historians alike. JOHN S. LEE is a Research Associate at the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of York.Trade Review[A] very welcome...informed, informative and up-to-date study...This is an excellent book, not only for those interested in clothiers, but also for anyone interested in the broad development of English textile history. * TEXTILE HISTORY *The book is accessible to a wide range of readers. A glossary is provided for those less familiar with cloth making, while detailed appendices will interest experts. A gazetteer of surviving buildings can be used by local historians. * ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW *Not only eminently readable but also well-researched. * THE RICARDIAN *[E]minently accessible . . . The work is a valuable read for any historian of material culture, or anyone looking to see how one industry functioned during the politically turbulent times of the Hundred Years War, the War of the Roses, and the reigns of the early Tudors. * COMITATUS *The amount of evidence presented in this book is staggering. Almost every page contains lucid examples drawn from an array of sources. The book is also immaculately written, with a richness of narrative sure to be appreciated by historians as well as the precision of argument valued by the more economically inclined. What it offers is a one-stop shop for a trade central to the medieval economy. It should serve as the entry point for researchers and students for years to come. * ECONOMIC HISTORY REVIEW *Anyone seeking a wide-ranging and well-informed historical account of late medieval English cloth-making will find it here. * MEDIEVAL ARCHAEOLOGY *An excellent start to this new series on medieval workers [and] a very worthwhile project.that will be of particular interest to economic and social historians and students, as well as those interested in regional and local history. * JOURNAL OF BRITISH STUDIES *It is surprising that we have had to wait so long for someone to tackle the clothiers . . . but it was worth the wait. John Lee has soaked up all the relevant literature, plus added his own discoveries from wills, chancery documents, and regional archives, to produce a readable, thorough, and wide-ranging survey. * MEDIEVAL CLOTHING & TEXTILES *The Medieval Clothier is an excellent first volume in Boydell's new series Working in the Middle Ages. . . . [It] is a highly successful book that provides an interesting, compelling and at all times authoritative survey of one of the most important trades in late medieval England, making it a must read for students and scholars alike. * EH.NET *The book may be aimed primarily at medievalists with interests in economic history, particularly in trade and taxation, and at those who study the history of entrepreneurship and social history, but the general reader will also be delighted by this appealing, beautifully organized book. * BUSINESS HISTORY REVIEW *Lee's book is an excellent example of clear and accessible research and synthesis and informs a key aspect of the debate on the role of small towns in early modern Europe. * URBAN HISTORY *Provides an interesting, accessible and well-referenced survey. * ESSEX JOURNAL *A very useful account...[It] can be recommended as an up to date introduction to the cloth trade in mediaeval England and is another impressive addition to the Boydell catalogue. * EAST YORKSHIRE LOCAL HISTORY SOCIETY *Lee's careful and thorough analysis based upon contemporary sources reveals the lasting impact a single profession can exert over national and related regional economies. Illustrations and useful definitions clarify terms for those unfamiliar with textiles and their processing. This volume represents a significant contribution to late medieval economic, industrial, social, and material culture studies. -- Karin J. Bohleke * SIXTEENTH CENTURY JOURNAL *Table of ContentsIntroduction Making cloth Marketing cloth Identifying Clothiers Clothiers and government Clothiers in society Famous clothiers Conclusion Appendix 1: Cloths taxed by county Appendix 2: Cloths taxed by locality Appendix 3: Cloth types, as defined by statute in 1552 Appendix 4: Will of Thomas Paycocke of Coggeshall Appendix 5: Will of Thomas Spring III of Lavenham Appendix 6: Will of John Smallwood the elder alias John Winchecombe I of Newbury Appendix 7: Will of William Stumpe of Malmesbury Gazetteer of surviving buildings Glossary Bibliography

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Liverpool University Press Transnational Radicalism and the Connected Lives

Book SynopsisThis 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 Britain, Mann travelled the globe as a tireless socialist organiser and propagandist who met Ross in the course of his political work in Australia. They then worked closely together as labour editors, educators, trade unionists and socialists in Australia and New Zealand between 1902 and 1913. Thereafter, they continued regularly to correspond with one another and other socialists in Australia, New Zealand and other parts of the Pacific Rim. Based upon extensive research into neglected primary and secondary sources in Britain, Australia, New Zealand and related places, this book explores the careers and lives of Mann and Ross as paired transnational radicals, as leaders who crossed national and other boundaries in order to promote their socialism. It situates them within the neglected English-speaking and even global radical worlds of the later nineteenth- and early twentieth-centuries, a period that constituted an early phase of globalisation. Breaking new ground in moving beyond the national focus which has dominated much of the relevant history, this book highlights both the importance of Mann’s and Ross’s transnational endeavours, attachments and identities and the ways in which these interacted with their national, sub-national and international spheres of activity, striking a chord with a wide variety of radicals seeking change in today’s globalised world.Trade ReviewReviews 'Conceptually exciting and at the cutting edge of labour historiography, the writing and research are of a high standard.' Dr Emmet O'Conner, The University of Ulster'Transnational Radicalism pushes at the methodological boundaries of both transnational labour history and biography. This considerable intellectual achievement illustrates how transnational or global labour history imposes considerable standards of erudition, research in multiple archival collections, and conceptual sophistication upon its practitioners.' Matt Perry, Labour History Review'This is a marvellous example of transnational labour history demonstrating how limiting a national perspective is, for it has to ignore the manifold connections and ties that went across national borders, zig-zagged in complex and contradictory ways and ultimately informed the very fabric of a genuinely transnational socialist movement.' Stefan Berger, Journal of Social History and the History of Social Movements'The first chapter on the "strengths, weaknesses, promise and pitfalls" (36) of the turn to transnational history, and concomitant comparative and global worlds is a strength of this book and will be essential reading for historians working in the area.' Melanie Nolan, Labour/Le TravailTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionI The Transnational ContextIntroduction1. Issues and Debates2. The Transnational World of Mann and RossII SocialismIntroduction3. What Kind of Socialism?4. Unfolding Differences, Enduring SimilaritiesIII Womanhood, Whiteness and WarIntroduction5. ‘True Womanhood’6. Race and Whiteness7. World War I and its AftermathConclusionBibliographyIndex

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Liverpool University Press Historical Studies in Industrial Relations,

Book SynopsisHistorical Studies in Industrial Relations was established in 1996 by the Centre for Industrial Relations, Keele University, to provide an outlet for, and to stimulate an interest in, historical work in the field of industrial relations and the history of industrial relations thought. Content broadly covers the employment relationship and economic, social and political factors surrounding it – such as labour markets, union and employer policies and organization, the law, and gender and ethnicity. Articles with an explicit political dimension, particularly recognising divisions within the working class and within workers’ organizations, will be encouraged, as will historical work on labour law.Table of Contents Jean Jenkins - Hands No Longer Wanted: Closure and the Moral Economy of Protest, Treorchy, South Wales Closure Paul Smith - The Law behind the Law: Rookes v. Barnard [1964], the Common Law and the Right to Strike The Trade Disputes Act 1965 Otto Kahn Freund - Rookes v. Barnard — and After Charles McGuire - ‘Going for the Jugular’: The Steelworkers’ Banner and the 1980 national steelworkers’ strike in Britain Michael Gold - ‘A Clear and Honest Understanding’: Alan Fox and the Origins and Implications of Radical Pluralism William Brown - Introduction to Alan Fox, ‘Corporatism and Industrial Democracy’ Alan Fox - Corporatism and Industrial Democracy: The Social Origins of Present Forms and Methods in Britain and Germany Dave Lyddon - Writing Trade Union History: The Case of the National Union of Public Employees Book Reviews

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Liverpool University Press Historical Studies in Industrial Relations,

Book SynopsisHistorical Studies in Industrial Relations was established in 1996 by the Centre for Industrial Relations, Keele University, to provide an outlet for, and to stimulate an interest in, historical work in the field of industrial relations and the history of industrial relations thought. Content broadly covers the employment relationship and economic, social and political factors surrounding it – such as labour markets, union and employer policies and organization, the law, and gender and ethnicity. Articles with an explicit political dimension, particularly recognising divisions within the working class and within workers’ organizations, will be encouraged, as will historical work on labour law.

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Liverpool University Press Fellow Travellers: Communist Trade Unionism and

Book SynopsisAn Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.Fellow Travellers examines the shifting practices and strategies adopted by Communist militants as they sought to build and maintain support on the railways. In a period in which the Communist party struggled to establish a foothold in many French workplaces, activists on the railways bucked the trend and set down deep and lasting roots of support. They maintained this support even through the sectarian period of the Comintern’s shift to class against class, deepening their participation within railway industrial relations and gaining the experience of engagement with managers and state officials upon which they would build during the years of the Popular Front. Here France’s railway employees joined alongside their fellow workers in shaping a new social contract for workers, extending the principle of democratic representation into the workplace. While the Popular Front experiment proved shortlived, its influence was long lasting. In the post Liberation period, the key tenets of the Popular Front experience re-emerged within the nationalised SNCF, shaping the particular character of railway industrial relations – the peculiar mix of collaboration and hostile confrontation between management and workforce that continues to make the French railways one of the most contested sectors of the modern French economy.Trade ReviewReviews 'A thoroughly researched and original study that makes a valuable contribution on an important and under-researched subject.'Professor David Howell, University of York'Thomas Beaumont’s meticulous new book... not only stands as the first monograph-length study of communist railway trade unionism, but also offers a complex and nuanced portrait of interwar French communism more broadly... [Fellow Travellers] deserves to be read widely by historians of France, labour, and the left alike.'Robert W. Lewis, Labour'Fellow Travellers is a clearly written and well-researched book. Beaumont has consulted government, police, PCF, and union records both to fill a significant gap in our knowledge of the French trade union movement and French Communism and to provide a sophisticated analysis of the culture of railway trade unionism.' Matt Perry, Labour History ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1: Railway Workers at WarChapter 2: Railway Workers and the ‘Après Guerre’Chapter 3: Railway Workers and the Communist ChoiceChapter 4: StabilisationChapter 5: International ConnectionsChapter 6: ‘Hostile Participants’: Communists and Railway Industrial Relations in the Class against Class era, 1928-1934Chapter 7: Railway Workers and the Popular Front: Victory to Defeat, 1936-1939ConclusionBibliography

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Liverpool University Press James Watt (1736-1819): Culture, Innovation and

Book SynopsisJames Watt (1736-1819) was a pivotal figure of the Industrial Revolution. His career as a scientific instrument maker, inventor and engineer was developed in Scotland, his land of birth. His subsequent national and international significance as a scientist, technologist and businessman was formed in the Birmingham area. There, his partnership with Matthew Boulton and the intellectual and personal support of other members of the Lunar Society network, such as Erasmus Darwin, James Keir, William Small and Josiah Wedgwood, enabled him to translate his improvements in steam technology into efficient machines. His pumping and rotative steam engines represent a summit of technological achievement in the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries. This is the traditional picture of James Watt. After his death, his surviving son, James Watt junior projected his father’s image through commissioning sculptures, medals, paintings and biographies which celebrated his reputation as a ‘great man’ of the Industrial Revolution. In popular historical understanding Watt has also become a hero of modernity, but the context in which he operated and the roles of others in shaping his ideas have been downplayed. This book explores new aspects of his work and evaluates him in his locational, family, social and intellectual contexts.Trade ReviewReviews 'High quality chapters, convincingly argued and clearly written, offering new insights into Watt's life and work.’Professor Christine MacLeod, University of Bristol‘Two pivotal chapters demonstrate the close and strategic attention that Watt paid to his extensive correspondence.’ Christine MacLeod, Midland History 'Distinguished investigators and newer researchers together illustrate the state of the field concerning James Watt. Interesting and definitive… this book [is] indispensable for buff and researcher alike.'Barbara Hahn, English Historical Review'This book [is] indispensable for buff and researcher alike.' Barbara Hahn, English Historical Review

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Liverpool University Press Jimmy Reid: A Clyde-built man

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Book SynopsisDescribed as "the best MP Scotland never had", Jimmy Reid was undoubtedly of the most important figures of late twentieth-century Britain. Often at the forefront of the major turning points in the history of industrial relations and politics in Britain, Jimmy’s story is an epic one; from a poverty-stricken background in Govan, Glasgow, he became a communist at a young age, leading a national strike of engineering apprentices while only twenty, before being thrown into the national limelight as the leading spokesperson for the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders Work-In in 1971-2. Disillusioned with communism he left the Party for Labour and the centre-left before leaving them disenchanted with New Labour to join the Scottish National Party. This enlightening book looks at Jimmy’s political journey from Communism, to Labourism, and ultimately to Nationalism (a political life in three acts), which not only speaks of the complexities of left politics after 1945, but also illuminates our understanding of institutions and social change in post-war Britain by showing how they were understood and negotiated by one inspirational individual.Trade Review'The book is deeply researched and develops a sensitive and revealing portrayal of the man and, no less important, his social and political background [...] Probably better than any other work it brings out the richness and diversity of working-class culture on Clydeside. Its two authors are particularly well qualified to do so. Alan McKinlay brings an unrivalled understanding of workplace relations in the West of Scotland and William Knox an encyclopaedic knowledge of the Scottish labour movement.' John Foster, 'Jimmy Reid biography symposium: reflections on a changing communist Clyde-built man' in Scottish Labour History 'The new biography of Jimmy Reid has been a long time in the gestation but it's well worth the wait [...] Though an academic work, it's an easy but fascinating read, as well as informative and thought-provoking.' Kenny MacAskill, 'Jimmy Reid biography symposium: reflections on a changing communist Clyde-built man' in Scottish Labour History 'William Knox and Alan McKinlay’s book provides an overdue and much-needed scholarly companion to the repertoires of folk-history that sustain Jimmy Reid’s place in Scotland’s popular historical consciousness.' Rory Scothorne, 'Jimmy Reid biography symposium: reflections on a changing communist Clyde-built man' in Scottish Labour History ‘The life of Reid has many insights and stories to be shared, as the authors’ indicate, noting how ‘Reid never stopped battling against poverty and inequality’ and that ‘he was in individual, an outsider, a man of restless intellect’ Paul Griffin, Journal of Contemporary History'The book is a welcome addition to a recent spate of biographies of leading communists that provide an important and useful addition to our knowledge of such leading cadres, as well as helping to restore some balance in the flow of materials from the struggles in which the biographical subjects were leading players.'Roger Seifert, Labour History Review'Jimmy Reid: A Clyde-Built Man addresses many of the enigmas in this complex life. [...] This biography is not just a welcome examination and reflection on the life of Jimmy Reid, but also on the UCS work-in as well as Scottish and UK politics of the period.' Alan Tuckman, The Spokesman Journal'Knox and McKinlay are well-qualified as [Reid's] biographers. Their lengthy scholarly partnership has focused on the workplace politics of Reid’s tribe: skilled, male, Scottish engineering workers and trade unionists. Their research has enriched understanding, among various issues, of the ‘culture clash’ between the expectations and practices of Scottish engineering workers and those of the dozens of US multinational firms that operated as major employers in Scotland from the 1950s to the 1980s.' Jim Phillips, Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas'This biography has to be part of every library for those with an interest in British industrial and shipbuilding history.' Fred M. Walker, The Mariner's MirrorTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsAbbreviations1. Introduction2. Beginnings3. Apprenticeship4. Cadre5. Work-in6. Leaving7. Strike8. Re-bornBibliographyIndex

Book SynopsisIn most studies of British decolonisation, the world of labour is neglected, the key roles being allocated to metropolitan statesmen and native elites. Instead this volume focuses on the role played by working people, their experiences, initiatives and organisations, in the dissolution of the British Empire, both in the metropole and in the colonies. How central was the intervention of the metropolitan Left in the liquidation of the British Empire? Were labour mobilisations in the colonies only stepping stones for bourgeois nationalists? To what extent were British labour activists willing and able to form connections with colonial workers, and vice versa? Here are some of the complex questions on which this volume sheds new light. Though convergences were fragile and temporary, this book recapture the sense of uncertainty that accompanied the final decades of the British Empire, a period when radical minorities hoped that coordinated efforts across borders might lead not only to the destruction of the British Empire but to that of capitalism and imperialism in general. Exploiting rare primary sources and adopting a resolutely transnational approach, our collection makes an original contribution to both labour history and imperial studies.Trade Review'With excellent framing essays by the editors that enrich the discussion, connecting the multiple areas of new empirical inquiry to larger questions of historiography and deeper social context, this is the go-to text on the role of Labour and the Left within the politics of the British decolonization experience.' Professor Leon Fink, Distinguished Emeritus Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago'Beliard and Kirk’s collection of essays on radical challenges to British imperialism provides a valuable series of case studies... Some will not agree with all its judgements but its case studies, like Tom Sibley’s on Fava, throw light on how far the influence of Britain’s imperialist state penetrated all aspects of our society including the labour movement.' John Foster, Morning Star‘Workers of the Empire, Unite is a sophisticated and scholarly contribution to the ongoing process of what might be called decolonizing British labor history through excellent historical studies relating to British labor and decolonization.’ Christian Høgsbjerg, Journal of British Studies‘As British society reassesses its history of colonialism, along with its associated symbols and attitudes, there is an increasing need for histories that bring a class-conscious perspective into this. This book and its notions of “decolonization from below” acts as an important introduction to what is hopefully a renaissance in the study of anti-imperialism and class politics.’ David Isserman, Scottish Labour History‘Workers of the Empire gives detailed insights into the history of the labour movement, left-wing activists, and the ‘proletariat’ in anti-colonial struggle. At the same time, it delves into the history of the British empire in particular by stressing the way the Empire sought to stifle anti-colonial voices in the colonies as is the case with the excellent essays on Kenya by Dave Hyde and on Sudan by Gareth Curless. In sum, this edited collection makes a significant contribution to the history of the British empire, imperialism, and especially the role of the left and the working class in anti-colonial struggle.’ Mohamed Chamekh, Labor HistoryTable of ContentsNotes on contributorsList of abbreviationsList of illustrationsForeword: Paul Pickering (Australian National University)Introduction: Yann Béliard (Sorbonne Nouvelle University), Labour, empire and decolonisation: historiographical landmarksPART 1 – Contesting Imperialism (1910s-1950s)Chapter 1: Marie Terrier (CREW, Sorbonne Nouvelle University), Annie Besant’s fight for Home Rule in India, 1910s-1920sChapter 2: Yann Béliard (Sorbonne Nouvelle University), Sylvia Pankhurst vs. the British Empire: the Workers’ Dreadnought experience, 1917 1924Chapter 3: Nicholas Owen (University of Oxford), Alliances from above and below: the failures and successes of communist anti-imperialism in India, 1920 1934Chapter 4: Matt Perry (Newcastle University), ‘The Lingua Franca of the Bangle’: Ellen Wilkinson, the Indian nationalist movement and British Labour, 1932Chapter 5: Quentin Gasteuil (Ecole normale supérieure Paris-Saclay (ENS) / Sorbonne University), A comparative and transnational approach to socialist anti-colonialism: the Fenner Brockway – Marceau Pivert connection, 1930s-1950sPART 2 – Labour, Decolonisation and Independence (1940s-1960s)Chapter 6: Gareth Curless (University of Exeter), Decolonisation and claim making in the Sudan, c. 1945-1958Chapter 7: Tom Sibley (International Centre for Trade Union Rights, ICTUR), Class, Cold War and colonialism: the deportation of Albert Fava from Gibraltar to Britain, 1948Chapter 8: David Hyde (University of East London), Decolonisation and ‘Development Untoward’: crisis and conflict on Kenya’s tea plantations, 1959-1960Chapter 9: Evan Smith (Flinders University of South Australia), For socialist revolution or national liberation? Anti-colonialism and the Communist Parties of Great Britain, Australia and South Africa in the era of decolonisationConclusion: Neville Kirk (Manchester Metropolitan University), Eight points on labour and the end of the British EmpireAfterword: Yann Béliard (Sorbonne Nouvelle University), Towards a people’s history of British decolonisationBibliographyIndex

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