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An alterfactual methodological approach to labour history : the case of the British miners' strike 1984-5 (2014)
Journal Article
Darlington, R. (2014). An alterfactual methodological approach to labour history : the case of the British miners' strike 1984-5. Labor History, 55(2), https://doi.org/10.1080/0023656X.2014.884862

In recent years, a small number of the so-called ‘counterfactual’ or ‘what-if’ historical books, which ask us to imagine what would have happened if events in the past had turned out differently than they did, have been published. They have stimulate... Read More about An alterfactual methodological approach to labour history : the case of the British miners' strike 1984-5.

Strike waves, union growth and the rank-and-file/bureaucracy interplay : Britain 1889-1890, 1910-1913 and 1919-1920 (2014)
Journal Article
Darlington, R. (2014). Strike waves, union growth and the rank-and-file/bureaucracy interplay : Britain 1889-1890, 1910-1913 and 1919-1920. Labor History, 55(1), 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/0023656X.2013.871476

Gerald Friedman's Reigniting the Labor Movement was a highly ambitious, unashamedly partisan, historical and transnational comparative analysis of the rise and demise of the labour movement, which identified the way in which rank-and-file workers' sp... Read More about Strike waves, union growth and the rank-and-file/bureaucracy interplay : Britain 1889-1890, 1910-1913 and 1919-1920.