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The Manchester and Salford Strike Wave of Summer 1911 (2023)
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Darlington, R. (2023). The Manchester and Salford Strike Wave of Summer 1911. #Journal not on list, 44-52

If the ‘Labour Revolt’ that swept Britain in the years leading up to the outbreak of the First World War between 1910 and 1914 was one of the most dramatic and violent explosions of industrial militancy and social conflict the country has ever experi... Read More about The Manchester and Salford Strike Wave of Summer 1911.

An alterfactual methodological approach to labour history : the case of the British miners' strike 1984-5 (2014)
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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.

Partisan, scholarly and active: for an organic public sociology of work and the case of critical labour studies (2013)
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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.

Objective but not detached: Partisanship in industrial relations research’ (2013)
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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’.

Syndicalism and strikes, leadership and influence: Britain, Ireland, France, Italy, Spain and the United States (2013)
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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.

Radical political unionism in France and Britain : a comparative study of SUD-Rail and the RMT (2012)
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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)
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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)
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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.