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Journal articles on the topic ""Great Labour Unrest""

Béliard, Yann. "Introduction: Revisiting the Great Labour Unrest, 1911-1914." Labour History Review 79, no. 1 (2014): 1–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/lhr.2014.1.

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Thompson, James. "The Great Labour Unrest and Political Thought in Britain, 1911-1914." Labour History Review 79, no. 1 (2014): 37–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/lhr.2014.3.

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Bantman, Constance. "The Franco-British Syndicalist Connection and the Great Labour Unrest, 1880s-1914." Labour History Review 79, no. 1 (2014): 83–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/lhr.2014.5.

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Lyddon, Dave. "Postscript: The Labour Unrest in Great Britain and Ireland, 1910-1914 - Still Uncharted Territory?" Historical Studies in Industrial Relations, no. 33 (September 2012): 241–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/hsir.2012.33.13.

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Ryan, Liam. "Citizen Strike Breakers: Volunteers, Strikes, and the State in Britain, 1911-1926." Labour History Review: Volume 87, Issue 2 87, no. 2 (2022): 109–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/lhr.2022.5.

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This article provides the first systematic historical study of volunteer strike-breaking across a relatively broad time frame, focusing specifically on the period between 1911 and 1926. These years bore witness to the largest industrial conflict in British history, encompassing the Great Labour Unrest of 1911-14, the post-war strike wave of 1919-23, and the General Strike of 1926. The sheer size and scale of these strikes, which involved millions of workers and engulfed entire cities, towns, and communities, instigated a shift away from traditional strikebreaking agencies and actors and towards civilian volunteers. This article challenges prevailing interpretations of the General Strike, interwar political culture, and the implications of voluntary activism in early twentieth-century Britain. It sheds light on the hitherto unexplored role of volunteers during the Great Labour Unrest and highlights how this activity often provoked considerable violence on the part of strikers. Contrary to dominant interpretations centred on the General Strike, which often highlight the good spirits of the volunteers, this article pays more attention to the hostility, arrogance, and sense of social hierarchy that underpinned the volunteer world view.

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Thompson, Clive. "Deviations from Design: Regulating Strikes in a Land of Unrest." Industrial Law Journal 46, no. 2 (2025): 871–98. https://doi.org/10.47348/ilj/v46/i2a8.

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Strike action has played a pivotal role in advancing and securing the socio-economic interests of workers in South Africa, first for white workers, then for black. Rights were won only in the aftermath of serious and sustained labour unrest, for white workers in the twenties, for black workers fifty years later. None of the legislative attempts at modulation ever quite went to plan, and the degree of deviation has arguably increased across the decades. The Industrial Conciliation Act 11 of 1924 set out to institutionalise conflict in respect of the favoured class of workers while ignoring the majority. But eventually demographics, international pressure and a groundswell of political and industrial resistance obliged the minority government from the late seventies and into the eighties to open an adjusted but unstable labour relations system to all. The Labour Relations Act 66 of 1995 (LRA) heralded a modern regime of great promise. That potential has not been realised under the weight of accumulated historical disadvantage and grievance, and the inability of the new constitutional and political order to repel corruption, violence and incompetence. It is difficult to see how the objects of the 1995 Act can be realised if — among other weighty challenges — the social parties cannot find a way to grow more co-operative, productive and competitive workplaces. Ironically, the voluntary suspension of the hard-fought right to strike might need to feature as part of any workplace culture reset.

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O'Connor, Emmet. "Old Wine in New Bottles? Syndicalism and ‘Fakirism’ in the Great Labour Unrest, 1911-1914." Labour History Review 79, no. 1 (2014): 19–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/lhr.2014.2.

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Howard, Stuart. "The Great Labour Unrest: rank-and-file movements and political change in the Durham coalfield." Social History 42, no. 1 (2017): 121–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03071022.2016.1253343.

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Miller, Eugene D. "Labour and the War-Time Alliance in Costa Rica 1943–1948." Journal of Latin American Studies 25, no. 3 (1993): 515–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022216x00006659.

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Costa Rica has won praise for its democratic traditions and social stability. Social scientists have attributed this to many factors: the country's benign colonial past, its small and relatively homogeneous population, the existence of a land owning peasantry, and the development, beginning in the 1930s, of a social welfare state. As it did elsewhere, the Great Depression marked a crossroads in Costa Rica's development. In response to the collapse of its international markets and the ensuing labour unrest, the state jettisoned its economic liberalism, and assumed an interventionist role in the management of the economy and labour–capital relations. This fundamentally reformist role developed through the 1930s and culminated in 1943 with the passage of a package of Christian-based social reforms including a comprehensive labour code under the administration of Rafael Calderón Guardia (1940–4).

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Villis, Tom. "Elitism and the revolt of the masses: reactions to the ‘great labour unrest’ in theNew AgeandNew Witnesscircles." History of European Ideas 31, no. 1 (2005): 85–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.histeuroideas.2003.08.010.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic ""Great Labour Unrest""

Brooks, Andrew. "The Price of Labor Peace: Popular Unrest and the National Labor Relations Act." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2012. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/honors_theses/10.

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The National Labor Relations Act stands as one of the most influential pieces of labor legislation in the history of the United States. The Act defines the rights and responsibilities of both employers and employees. Furthermore, the National Labor Relations Act makes the State into the chief judicial body regarding labor disputes through the National Labor Relations Board. Chiefly concerned with the circumstances that led to the passage and affected the shaping of the Act, factors such as Communist organizing, racial politics of the Deep South, and internal division within the labor movement in the 1920s are examined. Specific case studies include the Auto-Lite Strike in Toledo, Ohio (1934), the Minneapolis Teamster Strike (1934), and the West Coast Longshoremen Strike (1934).

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Mitchell, John A. 1966. "Bolshevik Britain: An Examination of British Labor Unrest in the Wake of the Russian Revolution, 1919." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1993. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc501153/.

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The conclusion of the First World War brought the resumption of a struggle of a different sort: a battle between government and labor. Throughout 1919, government and labor squared off in a struggle over hours, wages, and nationalization. The Russian Revolution introduced the danger of the bolshevik contagion into the struggle. The first to enter into this conflict with the government were the shop stewards of Belfast and Glasgow. The struggle continued with the continued threats of the Triple Alliance and the police to destroy the power of the government through industrial action. This thesis examines the British labor movement during this revolutionary year in Europe, as well as the government's response to this new danger.

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Books on the topic ""Great Labour Unrest""

Mates, Lewis H. Great Labour Unrest. Manchester University Press, 2016.

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Mates, Lewis. Great Labour Unrest: Rank-And-file Movements and Political Change in the Durham Coalfield. Manchester University Press, 2016.

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Mates, Lewis. Great Labour Unrest: Rank-and-File Movements and Political Change in the Durham Coalfield. Manchester University Press, 2020.

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Mates, Lewis. Great Labour Unrest: Rank-And-file Movements and Political Change in the Durham Coalfield. Manchester University Press, 2016.

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Perry, Matt, ed. The Global Challenge of Peace. Liverpool University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781800857193.001.0001.

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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 world with the Treaties of Paris and established the League of Nations intending to prevent future war. Yet, that 1919 was a complex threshold between war and peace contested on a global scale is often missed. This process began prior to war’s end with mutinies, labour and consumer unrest, colonial revolt but reached a high point in 1919. Most obviously, the Russian Revolutions of 1917 continued into 1919 which signalled a decisive year for the Bolshevik regime. While the leaders of the Great Powers famously drew up new states in their Parisian hotel rooms, state formation also had a popular dynamic. The Irish Republic was declared. Afghanistan gained independence. Labour unrest was widespread. This year witnessed the emergence of anti-colonial insurgency and movements across Europe’s colonies; in metropolitan centres of Empire, race riots took place in the UK and during the ‘red summer’ in the US, anti-colonial movements, as well as an important moment of political enfranchisement for women but their expulsion from the wartime labour force. 1919 has many legacies: the first Arab spring, with the awakening of nationalism in the Wilsonian and Bolshevik context; the moment (after Amritsar) that Britain definitively lost its moral claim to India; the definitive announcement of Black presence in the UK; the great reversal of women’s participation in the skilled occupations; the first Fascist movement was founded.

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Smith, Leonard V. Mastering Revolution. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199677177.003.0006.

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Revolution in various forms had been endemic to the Great War. The Paris Peace Conference sought not so much to oppose revolution as to master it in the formation of a new international system. It created the International Labour Organization to institutionalize a transnational approach to labor relations, and thus head off worker unrest as a source of revolution. The Mandate Principle put all mandates at least theoretically on the path to independence, however indefinite the period of tutelage. The Mandate Principle, at least discursively, provided a means of pre-empting anti-colonialism as a source of international instability. The conference also sought to master revolution in successor states. Recognizing Czechoslovakia as a model liberal democracy provided a template ill-suited to recognizing the other successor states. The war between Romania and Hungary in 1919–20 left the Supreme Council with recognition as its only means to control the behavior of successor states.

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The Attlee and Churchill Administrations and Industrial Unrest, 1945-55. Pinter Pub Ltd, 1993.

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The Attlee and Churchill administrations and industrial unrest, 1945-55: A study in consensus. Pinter Publishers, 1990.

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Book chapters on the topic ""Great Labour Unrest""

Mates, Lewis H. "Historiographical introduction." In The Great Labour Unrest. Manchester University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9780719090684.003.0001.

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Mates, Lewis H. "Structures, agents and the ILP’s high tide." In The Great Labour Unrest. Manchester University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9780719090684.003.0002.

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Mates, Lewis H. "The Eight Hours Act and the Eight Hours Agreement in the Durham coalfield." In The Great Labour Unrest. Manchester University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9780719090684.003.0003.

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Mates, Lewis H. "‘Not exactly the millennium’." In The Great Labour Unrest. Manchester University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9780719090684.003.0004.

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Mates, Lewis H. "‘A capitalistic piece of legislation’." In The Great Labour Unrest. Manchester University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9780719090684.003.0005.

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Mates, Lewis H. "‘Trade union questions were now political questions’." In The Great Labour Unrest. Manchester University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9780719090684.003.0006.

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Mates, Lewis H. "Conclusion." In The Great Labour Unrest. Manchester University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9780719090684.003.0007.

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Mates, Lewis H. "Front Matter." In The Great Labour Unrest. Manchester University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.7765/9781784997595.00001.

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Mates, Lewis H. "Dedication." In The Great Labour Unrest. Manchester University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.7765/9781784997595.00002.

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Mates, Lewis H. "Contents." In The Great Labour Unrest. Manchester University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.7765/9781784997595.00003.

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