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Volume 45 includes articles on state containment and coercion of the National Unemployed Workers’ Movement, 1921–39, as well as a piece on Nancy Seear and the investigation of women’s employment, alongside research on the British Labour Movement’s involvement in West Indian labour struggles, 1934–39. Other essays include work on union leadership, mobilization and decision-making in a prolonged strike, as well as a piece on the founding and early development of the Modern Records Centre.
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Table of contents
Research Articles
Emanuel Bourges Espinosa
Nancy Seear and the Investigation of Women’s Employment
Susan Milner
Roger Seifert
Union Leadership, Mobilization and Decision-Making in a Prolonged Strike
Kathryn Steel
Pierre Botcherby
Document
Paul Smith
Reflections on the Hire and Reward Strike in Hull, January–February 1979
Fred Beach
Review Essay
Motive and Method in the Re-Making of the Mineworkers’ Strike, 1984–85
Huw Beynon
Book Review
Ruth Dukes and Wolfgang Streeck, Democracy at Work: Contract, Status and Post-Industrial Justice
Miguel Martínez Lucio
Abstracts