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The pre-First World War British women’s suffrage revolt and labour unrest : never the twain shall meet? (2020)
Journal Article
Darlington, R. (2020). The pre-First World War British women’s suffrage revolt and labour unrest : never the twain shall meet?. Labor History, 61(5-6), 466-485. https://doi.org/10.1080/0023656x.2020.1836612

During the years immediately preceding the First World War Britain experienced mass social unrest on a scale not seen since the early nineteenth century. Despite their distinctive priorities of gender and class, respectively, both the women’s suffrag... Read More about The pre-First World War British women’s suffrage revolt and labour unrest : never the twain shall meet?.

The role of the TUC in significant industrial disputes : an historical critical overview (2019)
Journal Article
Darlington, R., & Mustchin, S. (2019). The role of the TUC in significant industrial disputes : an historical critical overview. Labor History, 60(6), 626-645. https://doi.org/10.1080/0023656x.2019.1624698

Historically the British Trades Union Congress’s (TUC) role in a significant number of major industrial disputes has been subject to both accusations of ‘betrayals’ and ‘sell-outs’ as well as more sympathetic accounts which emphasise the constraints... Read More about The role of the TUC in significant industrial disputes : an historical critical overview.

The leadership component of Kelly’s Mobilisation Theory : contribution, tensions, limitations and further development (2018)
Journal Article
contribution, tensions, limitations and further development. Economic and Industrial Democracy, 39(4), 617-638. https://doi.org/10.1177/0143831X18777609

This reassessment of Kelly’s analysis of the relationship of activist leadership to collective action within the overall jigsaw of mobilisation theory draws on social movement literature, studies by industrial relations scholars utilising aspects of... Read More about The leadership component of Kelly’s Mobilisation Theory : contribution, tensions, limitations and further development.

British labour movement solidarity in the 1913-14 Dublin Lockout (2016)
Journal Article
Darlington, R. (2016). British labour movement solidarity in the 1913-14 Dublin Lockout. Labor History, 57(4), 504-525. https://doi.org/10.1080/0023656X.2016.1239872

While most accounts of the Dublin Lockout of 1913-14 consider it primarily as an event in Irish history, it was also one of the most important struggles in twentieth century British history. It was influenced by, and was an integral part of the great... Read More about British labour movement solidarity in the 1913-14 Dublin Lockout.

The Conservative government's proposed strike ballot thresholds : The challenge to trade unions [Pamphlet] (2015)
Report
Darlington, R., & Dobson, J. (2015). The Conservative government's proposed strike ballot thresholds : The challenge to trade unions [Pamphlet]

According to the authors of this timely report, the government is attempting to rush into law ‘the most sweeping and radical tightening of rules on industrial action since the Thatcher era of the 1980’s’. They warn that such proposals could result i... Read More about The Conservative government's proposed strike ballot thresholds : The challenge to trade unions [Pamphlet].

Britain : Striking unionism with a political cutting edge (2014)
Book Chapter
Darlington, R. (2014). Britain : Striking unionism with a political cutting edge. In H. Connolly, L. Kretsos, & C. Phelan (Eds.), Radical Unions in Europe and the Future of Collective Interest Representation (68-88). Oxford: Peter Lang. https://doi.org/10.3726/978-3-0353-0599-9/6

Compared with the wave of general strikes that have swept across Europe since 2009, the response of UK trade unions to the global financial crisis and government austerity measures has been rather more muted. However, in March 2011 there was the larg... Read More about Britain : Striking unionism with a political cutting edge.

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.

Partisan, scholarly and active: for an organic public sociology of work and the case of critical labour studies (2013)
Journal Article
Brook, P., & Darlington, R. (2013). Partisan, scholarly and active: for an organic public sociology of work and the case of critical labour studies. Work, Employment and Society, 27(2), 232-243

Despite a thriving tradition of critical scholarship in UK-based sociology of work, Burawoy’s call for a partisan organic public sociology that is part of ‘a social movement beyond the academy’ and Bourdieu’s plea for committed scholarship in the ser... Read More about Partisan, scholarly and active: for an organic public sociology of work and the case of critical labour studies.

Partisan, scholarly and active : arguments for an organic public sociology of work (2013)
Journal Article
Brook, P., & Darlington, R. (2013). Partisan, scholarly and active : arguments for an organic public sociology of work. Work, Employment and Society, 27(2), 232-243. https://doi.org/10.1177/0950017012461838

Despite a thriving tradition of critical scholarship in UK-based sociology of work, Burawoy’s call for a partisan organic public sociology that is part of ‘a social movement beyond the academy’ and Bourdieu’s plea for committed scholarship in the ser... Read More about Partisan, scholarly and active : arguments for an organic public sociology of work.

Syndicalism and strikes, leadership and influence: Britain, Ireland, France, Italy, Spain and the United States (2013)
Journal Article
Darlington, R. (2013). Syndicalism and strikes, leadership and influence: Britain, Ireland, France, Italy, Spain and the United States. International Labor and Working-Class History, 83(Spring), 37-53. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0147547913000136

The explosion of industrial and political militancy that swept the world during the early years of the twentieth century gave the revolutionary syndicalist movement a prominence and notoriety it would not otherwise have possessed, while at the same t... Read More about Syndicalism and strikes, leadership and influence: Britain, Ireland, France, Italy, Spain and the United States.

Objective but not detached: Partisanship in industrial relations research’ (2013)
Journal Article
Darlington, R., & Dobson, J. (2013). Objective but not detached: Partisanship in industrial relations research’. Capital and Class, 37(2), 285-297. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309816813489936

This article considers whether industrial relations (IR) research is objective, impartial or value-free, and argues that many IR academics in Britain have tended to start from a social-democratic premise which makes them relatively more sympathetic t... Read More about Objective but not detached: Partisanship in industrial relations research’.

Re-evaluating syndicalist opposition to the First World War (2012)
Journal Article
Darlington, R. (2012). Re-evaluating syndicalist opposition to the First World War. Labor History, 53(4), 517-539. https://doi.org/10.1080/0023656X.2012.731834

It has been argued that support for the First World War by the important French syndicalist organisation, the Confédération Générale du Travail (CGT) has tended to obscure the fact that other national syndicalist organisations remained faithful to th... Read More about Re-evaluating syndicalist opposition to the First World War.

Talent management, leadership development and knowledge transfer in an international context (2012)
Thesis
Iles, P. Talent management, leadership development and knowledge transfer in an international context. (Thesis). University of Salford

This submission incorporates twelve published works relating to issues of talent management, leadership development and knowledge transfer in an international context. These issues are examined from a consistently contextual and processual stance... Read More about Talent management, leadership development and knowledge transfer in an international context.

Radical political unionism in France and Britain : a comparative study of SUD-Rail and the RMT (2012)
Journal Article
Connolly, H., & Darlington, R. (2012). Radical political unionism in France and Britain : a comparative study of SUD-Rail and the RMT. European Journal of Industrial Relations, 18(3), 235-250. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959680112452693

Arguably the problem with many recent pessimistic academic assessments of the fortunes of, and prospects for, the revival of European trade unionism is that they fail to adequately capture evidence of continuing union resilience and combativity in ce... Read More about Radical political unionism in France and Britain : a comparative study of SUD-Rail and the RMT.

A reappraisal of the rank-and-file/bureaucracy debate (2012)
Journal Article
Darlington, R., & Upchurch, M. (2012). A reappraisal of the rank-and-file/bureaucracy debate. Capital and Class, 36(1), 77-95. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309816811430369

This paper celebrates some of the considerable strengths of Richard Hyman’s 1970s/early 1980s analysis of trade unionism in general and bureaucracy specifically, and reapplies it to more recent developments within British trade unionism, while at the... Read More about A reappraisal of the rank-and-file/bureaucracy debate.

The interplay of structure and agency dynamics in strike activity (2012)
Journal Article
Darlington, R. (2012). The interplay of structure and agency dynamics in strike activity. Employee Relations, 34(5), 518-533. https://doi.org/10.1108/01425451211248523

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to build on the insights of mobilisation theory to examine the interplay of structure and agency dynamics in strike activity. It proposes to do so by investigating the 2007 36-hour strike undertaken by 2,300 eng... Read More about The interplay of structure and agency dynamics in strike activity.