Essays in Irish labour history : a festschrift for Elizabeth and John W. Boyle / editors, Francis Devine, Fintan Lane and Niamh Puirséil
2008, 1st edition. Dublin : Irish Academic Press In association with the Irish Labour History Society. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. Literally as new. Item #378533
ISBN: 9780716528258
Physical description; xii, 273 pages : illustrations, portrait ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Gentleflowering : Elizabeth and John W. Boyle, historians and labour activists / Francis Devine -- Envisaging labour history : some reflections on Irish historiography and the working class / Fintan Lane -- Popular protest and a 'moral economy' in provincial Ireland in the early nineteenth century / John Cunningham -- 'Remembering who we are' : identity and class in Protestant Dublin and Belfast, 1868-1905 / Martin Maguire -- Sheep in wolves' clothing : labour and politics in Belfast, 1881-1914 / Emmet O'Connor -- Dublin building trades lockout of 1896 / Charles Callan -- Outwork, truck and the lady inspector : Lucy Deane in Londonderry and Donegal, 1897 / Kevin J. James -- Striking for the right to be late at work : workers' resistance to employers' time discipline in Lurgan Power Loom Factories, 1899-1914 / Mats Greiff -- Belfast shipyards and the industrial working class / John Lynch -- IRA and trade unionism, 1922-72 / Brian Hanley -- Catholic Stakhanovites? : religion and the Irish Labour Party, 1922-73 / Niamh Puirstil -- Writers of the left : politics and culture in Ireland during the 1930s / Paul O'Brien -- Money matters in the lives of working women in Ireland in the 1940s and 1950s / Elizabeth Kiely and Maire Leane -- Decline of the collaborators : the Ulster Unionist Labour Association and post-war unionist politics / Henry Patterson. Subjects; Boyle, Elizabeth 1908-. Boyle, John William 1914-. Labor Ireland History. Working class Ireland History. Labor and laboring classes Ireland History. Labor and laboring classes Northern Ireland History.
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