Those of you attentive to Labour History may be interested in the following:



Strikers, Hobblers, Conchies & Reds

A Radical History of Bristol, 1880-1939

Breviary Stuff Publications, December 2014



In the 1970s and 80s a revival of interest emerged in researching Bristol’s vigorous radical past, which has been echoed in the more recent historical studies concerning the involvement of the Bristol women’s movement in the nineteenth century in anti-slavery campaigns, social reform, and the struggle for the emancipation of women. However, significant gaps in our knowledge still exist and there have been too few works that focus on the local dimension in examining, over an extensive time span, the pattern and dynamics of working class movements.

This collection of essays from members of the Bristol Radical History Group traces the relationship between labour struggles and the new ideas and practice of general unionism, socialism and anarchism in Bristol and the surrounding area from the late nineteenth century through to the inter-war years. Our analysis of this important period focusses on the experiences and actions of the participants and their organisations from the unruly River Pilots fighting to maintain their traditional ways of working, through the massive strike waves of the 1890s and the Great Unrest of the pre-WW1 years to the violent unemployed demonstrations of the 1930s. Along the way we sample the delights of coffee houses, see the emergence of socialism and anarchism as distinct currents in the labour movement and discover the radical ideas which originally lay behind the garden suburbs of Southmead, Knowle West and Sea Mills.



Contents

Introduction

♦ Anarchism in Bristol and the West Country: 1880-1939

Stephen E. Hunt

♦ Pirates to Proletarians: the Experience of the Pilots and Watermen of Crockerne Pill in the Nineteenth Century

Mike Richardson

♦ The Bristol Strike Wave of 1889-1890: Socialists, New Unionists and New Women — Part One: Days of Hope

Mike Richardson

♦ The Bristol Strike Wave of 1889-1890: Socialists, New Unionists and New Women — Part Two: Days of Doubt

Mike Richardson

♦ The Origins and an Account of Black Friday, 23rd December 1892

Roger Ball

♦ Intermezzo: Coffee Taverns

Stephen E. Hunt

♦ Bristol and the Labour Unrest of 1910-14

Mike Richardson

♦ Yesterday’s To-morrow: Bristol’s Garden Suburbs

Stephen E. Hunt

♦ Bread or Batons? Unemployed Workers’ Struggles in Bristol in the 1930s

Dave Backwith and Roger Ball

Details

RRP £18.50 • 366pp paperback • 101 B&W images • 156x234mm • ISBN 978-0-9929466-0-9

Publisher: Breviary Stuff Publications

Available mail-order £18.50 (incl. p&p UK/Europe) from: http://www.breviarystuff.org.uk/





Dr Michael Richardson



Visiting Research Fellow/Senior Lecturer



Centre for Employment Studies Research



University of the West of England



Frenchay Campus



Coldharbour Lane



Bristol BS16 1QY



Te. 01173283475

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From: Research and Teaching in Management, Business and Labour History [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Bogdan Costea [[log in to unmask]]

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Subject: Lancaster University Management School - Senior Lecturer/Lecturer in Organisation, Work and /or Technology



Dear Colleagues,



With our best wishes for 2015 and apologies for cross-posting, please note this position available at Lancaster, a position that may be of interest to members of the group.



Senior Lecturer/Lecturer in Organisation, Work and /or Technology



Department of Organisation Work & Technology

Salary:   £33,242 to £54,841

Closing Date:   Friday 09 January 2015

Interview Date:   To be confirmed

Reference:  A1014R



Our collegial and intellectually stimulating Department of Organisation, Work and Technology is seeking a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer able to contribute to our research and teaching in one or more of the following fields: HRM, ethics, gender and diversity, sustainability, science technology and society, social study of information systems, management and organisational history, and globalization and international development. However, we are also keen to consider individuals who would bring new but related interests.



The successful candidate may currently be working in a management or business school. We also have a track record of successful appointments from the social sciences and humanities more broadly, when there is evidence of a willingness to teach and research concerns central to management and organisation studies (including seeking research funding). The successful candidate will have completed (or submitted) a PhD and have published at an international standard.



Applicants for Senior Lecturer appointment will additionally require sustained publication success at an international standard, teaching excellence and a willingness to assume senior administrative tasks.



The person appointed will teach on the department’s undergraduate and/or post-graduate courses. There are also opportunities to teach on the Management School's MBA programme and to contribute to post-experience and overseas programmes.



Lancaster University Management School is the inaugural winner of the FT “Business School of the Year Award”. It is world-ranked, and accredited by the AACSB, the Association of MBAs and EQUIS. The most recent Financial Times Global MBA rankings placed LUMS within the top-50 business schools in the world. LUMS has topped the UK research rankings in business and management for nearly two decades.



Further details of the Department can be found at http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/lums/owt/



Informal enquiries may be directed to: Theo Vurdubakis Head of Department of Organisation, Work and Technology, phone: +44 (0) 1524 510960 [log in to unmask]



We welcome applications from people in all diversity groups.