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🔴 Gender Equality and Employment Regulation in the New Labour Years, 1997–2010: The Problem of the Gender Pay Gap by Susan Milner
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#labourhistory #skystorians #politics
Promotes publishing historical work in industrial relations—Liverpool University Press logo over dark machine gears, large headline text on a red band, and a cream journal cover titled "Historical Studies in Industrial Relations" at right.
September 29, 2026 at 10:30 AM
taicheuk.bsky.social
#photoprint When the Pits Fell Silent #minersstrike #MinersStrike1984 #WorkingClassHistory #LaborHistory #LabourHistory #StrikePoetry #UnionStrong #Solidarity #WorkingClassStories #SocialJustice #PoliticalPoetry www.zazzle.com/when_the_pit... via @zazzle
When the Pits Fell Silent Photo Print | Zazzle
This artwork reflects the decline of mining communities during industrial closures, capturing the tension between workers, politics, and economic change. It evokes struggle, loss, and resilience in to...
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September 21, 2026 at 5:39 AM
gilbertofernandes.bsky.social
I am thrilled to announce that my book Militants, Mobsters and Mavericks: The Men Who Built Modern Toronto in the 1960s-70s, is out and available in every major bookstore, just in time for the Labour Day weekend.
www.indigo.ca/products/mil...

#canadianhistory #torontohistory #labourhistory
September 2, 2026 at 5:01 PM
nenieb.bsky.social
Pleased to see this chapter out! ‘Outlaw emotions: the anger and activism of women working in Australian and New Zealand television production in the 1970s’ #mediahistory #labourhistory tinyurl.com/4ae92njj
Creativity and Conflict in the Cultural Industries | Christopher Lucas
This book provides a practical theory and research informed guide to understanding conflict in the creative and cultural industries. This edited collection
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August 28, 2026 at 8:43 AM
culinavetus.bsky.social
Today's post is about how brickmakers unionising, maidservants bringing recipes to Vienna, and both of them voting makes the city much better. Also, Powidlkolatschen.

www.culina-vetus.de/2026/08/26/b...

#foodhistory #Vienna #housing #labourhistory #eattherich
1892 drawing of a Czech maidservant shopping. The black-and-white drawing shows a young woman dressed in late nineteenth-century cold-weather clothing - a long dress, cape, and kerchief - carrying a large basket. In the background, we can see several people standing around market stalls and the facade of a hall. Original by Archibald Hartrick courtesy of wikimedia commons The Viktor-Adler-Hof in Vienna. Colour photograph of a large, five-storey apartment building. The facade is structured by varied types of windows and balconies and variations in colour between beige and brick-dust pink. This block was built in 1924 as social housing and named in honour of labour activist and politician Victor Adler.
August 26, 2026 at 2:02 PM
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Returning Workers to an Empty FactoryChen Chieh-Jen made Factory in 2003 after meeting former workers from Taiwan’s Lien Fu garment factory, which had closed in 1996...

#ChenChiehJen #TaiwaneseArt #VideoArt #LabourHistory

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August 23, 2026 at 12:21 PM
berndhuettner.bsky.social
Contested Countrysides: Conflicts, Claims and the Making of the Modern World.
CfP für eine Konferenz am AMSAB in Ghent/Belgien nächstes Jahr. #LabourHistory
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Plakat das eine Planierraupe und einige Landarbeiter:innen zeigt.
August 13, 2026 at 9:14 AM
vsdawson.bsky.social
Tuesday! Come and join me to hear about this working class women's struggle for better pay and conditions. #Skystorians #LabourHistory
August 6, 2026 at 2:29 PM
kanicholls.bsky.social
Excited to sit down and read Dennis Lewycky's Magificent Fight: The 1919 Winnipeg General Strike.
(Now updated my reading list on my website!)

So far, a great resource for research for something I wanna write. Got a few other books marked for research too.

#booksky #labourhistory
July 31, 2026 at 7:00 AM
wheatearbill63.bsky.social
Well worth a read! #yorkshirehistory #labourhistory #yorkshire #wentworthwoodhouse
July 23, 2026 at 3:58 PM
cathyhunt.bsky.social
Here is a series of blog posts about a South Yorkshire socialist councillor and campaigner who also happened to be born into the aristocracy. It's quite a story!
cathyhunthistorian.com/2026/07/19/p...
#yorkshirehistory #wentworthwoodhouse #labourhistory
Part One. The Public Life of Lady Mabel Smith: An Introduction, including sources consulted
Lady Mabel Smith was born in 1870 into one of the wealthiest aristocratic families in England – the Fitzwilliams – but, defying the expectations and conventions of her class and sex, she beca…
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July 22, 2026 at 1:50 PM
genejean.bsky.social
Delighted to have researched the life of Frances Foxcroft (1888–1968), the English-born telephone operator whose courage during the 1918 #GingerGoodwin General Strike is now recognised by BC Labour Heritage Centre 🇨🇦 #LabourHistory #Genealogy #FamilyHistory www.labourheritagecentre.ca/collection/f...
Frances Foxcroft: An Englishwoman in Vancouver's Labour Movement
Explore the intersection of personal upheaval, resilience and industrial conflict during the early years of Vancouver's labour movement.
www.labourheritagecentre.ca
July 3, 2026 at 7:02 AM
americanwork47.bsky.social
Appreciate the Social History Portal, the website of the International Association of Labour History Institutions, listing Points of Departure as available from @commonnotions.bsky.social for preorder. More info: socialhistoryportal.org/news/article... #labourhistory
Points of Departure: Refusal of Work and the Crisis of Capitalism: The Collected Writings of Harry Cleaver | Social History Portal
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July 1, 2026 at 7:36 PM
ghilondon.bsky.social
#epistemicinequalities #labourhistory #globalsouth #internationallabourorganization

📷 Koloniales Bildarchiv, Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt a. M., picture nr. 005-1120-1 [cropped].
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June 22, 2026 at 2:02 PM
valerawlings.bsky.social
Thanks to Dr Trevor James who has given me permission to reproduce his full review for my book Friendship, Love & Truth on my website. Smashing start to the week! 😀📖🎉
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#LabourHistory #TradeUnionHistory #BookReview #HistoryMatters #SocialHistory
Historian praises Vale Rawlings book
Dr Trevor James, editor of the Mid-Trent and Mercia Historian, has reviewed the Vale Rawlings book, Friendship, Love & Truth, and said he highly recommends it as a carefully researched and meticulous ...
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June 22, 2026 at 10:54 AM
mngupbooks.bsky.social
The Work of Music reframes Austro‑German musical history through the lens of labour from 1648 to the Third Reich.

Browse our virtual #ELHN2026 exhibition here: buff.ly/evNq93T

#LabourHistory
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June 18, 2026 at 2:57 PM
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Down and Out in Utopia follows unemployed Norwegians during the oil‑crash downturn to show how social democracy shapes everyday experiences of labour, welfare, and belonging.

Browse our virtual #ELHN2026 exhibition here:
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#LabourHistory
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ELHN 2026 - The Mare Nostrum Group Bookshop
6th ELHN Conference of the European Labour History Network 16-19 June 2026 Welcome to our virtual exhibit for the 6th ELHN Conference of the European Labour History Network Enjoy a special…
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June 18, 2026 at 10:14 AM
mngupbooks.bsky.social
A compelling portrait of four women and a movement, Labor Journalism, Labor Feminism uncovers the networks, relationships, and radical energy that established social change.

Browse our virtual #ELHN2026 exhibition here: buff.ly/evNq93T

#LabourHistory
@illinoispress.bsky.social
June 17, 2026 at 3:45 PM
mngupbooks.bsky.social
Digging into welfare, work, poverty, literacy, and the making of the modern state, Workhouse Lives shines a light on the people who kept these institutions running.

Browse our virtual #ELHN2026 exhibition here: mngbookshop.co.uk/elhn-2026/

#LabourHistory
@mcgillqueensup.bsky.social
June 17, 2026 at 2:31 PM
jessicamdewitt.bsky.social
“The FMSHRC was created under the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977, one of the country’s strongest and most enduring worker protection laws.”

#envhist #mininghistory #labourhistory
inthesetimes.com In These Times @inthesetimes.com · May 14
On May Day, the Trump admin fired a mine safety commissioner & closed the Pittsburgh office of the agency that handles mine safety disputes. @kimkelly.bsky.social reports on what that could mean for coal miners already facing black lung, silica dust & dangerous work: inthesetimes.com/article/trum...
Trump’s Latest Target: Coal Miners’ Safety
In one fell swoop, the Trump administration took an axe to the agency tasked with handling legal disputes around mine worker safety. It could signal even deeper cuts to worker protections coming down…
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May 14, 2026 at 8:58 PM
An issue of the "national emergency edition" of The Barnet Press from the midst of the general strike - 100 years ago today #labourhistory #1926generalstrike #barnet
May 8, 2026 at 8:02 PM
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🔴 Today's bank holiday marks International Workers' Day 2026! Take a look below to discover more about our recent labour history content below ⬇️

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Promotional graphic for Liverpool University Press. On a muted red background, large white text reads “New in Labour History.” Centered is the cover of the journal “Labour History: A Journal of Labour and Social History,” issue number 129 (November 2025), showing a black-and-white photo of a person filing documents in an archive. To the left is a book cover titled “Screen Workers and the Irish Film Industry” by Denis Murphy with a filmstrip motif. To the right is a book cover titled “Militant Migrants” by Henry Dee, with a black-and-white image of a crowd. Far right is a red panel for “Labour History Review,” Volume 91, Number 1 (April 2026), listing articles and book reviews. Bottom right shows the Liverpool University Press logo and “Founded 1899.”
May 4, 2026 at 12:30 PM
mininglandscapes.bsky.social
OF INTEREST: Art27 Scotland and Unison #Fife Health Branch are presenting 3 screenings of The Happy Lands in #Cardenden #Lochgelly #Kirkcaldy to mark the centenary of the #GeneralStrike 👉
happlandsgeneralstrike.my.canva.site for info and booking #mininghistory #labourhistory
May 3, 2026 at 9:09 AM
historyinafrica.bsky.social
For International Workers' Day, Jennifer Hart suggests we reassess the Ga Shifimo Kpee, which opposed Nkrumah’s CPP through a drivers' strike in Accra. https://ow.ly/9baM50YTTBg #MayDay #LabourHistory #GhanaHistory #AfricanHistory #WorkersRights
Steering the Nation? Drivers, Nationalism, and the Writing of History | History in Africa | Cambridge Core
Steering the Nation? Drivers, Nationalism, and the Writing of History - Volume 52
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May 2, 2026 at 1:10 PM
peopleshistreh.union.place.ap.brid.gy
Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Labour History are organising some events on the General Strike in Chesterfield.

#generalstrike100 #chesterfieldhistory #LabourHistory
The General Strike of 1926. Public meeting. Talks and discussion. Talks will include bsckground to the General Strike, events in Chesterfield in 1926 and the breakaway from the mineworkers trade union led by George Spencer of Nottinghamshire. Exhibition about General Strike focussed on General Strike focussed on Chesterfield. May 2 12pm to 4.30pm, May 4 May Day Bank Holiday 10am to 4pm. Former Rose Hill United Reform Church, Rose Hill, S40 1LW (next to Chesterfield Town Hall). Non-members welcome.
May 2, 2026 at 8:24 AM