Labour History Review

Volume 75 (2010), 3 issues per year

Since 1960 Labour History Review has explored the working lives and politics of 'ordinary' people, and has played a key role in redefining social and political history.

Labour History Review publishes up to 12 fully-refereed articles in its three issues each year. The emphasis is on British labour history, though the journal also includes comparative and international studies. The editors welcome contributions which dig deeper within the traditional subject matter of labour history, but they are also keen to expand the parameters of the subject and the range of approaches taken to it. They are particularly interested in articles which engage with issues of gender and ethnicity or race, as well as class.

Labour History Review also features book reviews (essays and short notices) and a new section which reviews museums, heritage 'experiences' and exhibitions from the standpoint of the labour historian. There is also an annual bibliography giving an overview of the year's publications, theses and dissertations in labour history and a comprehensive listing of relevant archival accessions.

Subscribers to the journal, automatically become a member of the Society for the Study of Labour History, a charity which promotes its subject by such means as conferences and campaigns on major issues as well as running Labour History Review.

FREE 50th Anniversary supplements for subscribers!

Subscribers to Labour History Review in 2010 will receive an an additional 50th anniversary supplementary special issue: Making History: Organizations of Labour Historians in Britain since 1960 in April 2010. Four essays trace the development of labour history societies in Britain, Scotland, Ireland and Wales.

In addition, all members of the Society will receive a FREE, PRE-PUBLICATION COPY of the paperback edition of Histories of Labour: National and International Perspectives in May 2010. This exciting new collection of essays documents the development of labour history in a range of countries around the world, examining national trends in labour historiography, the challenges these literatures have encountered, and the organizational history of historians of labour since 1960.

Contents
Preface: Eric Hobsbawm
Editors’ Introduction
1. Organized Labour History in Britain: The Society for the Study of Labour History after Fifty Years, John McIlroy
2. Britain: 1750–1900, Joan Allen and Malcolm Chase
3. Britain: The Twentieth Century, Alan Campbell and John McIlroy
4. Ireland, Emmet O’Connor and Conor McCabe
5. The United States of America, Elizabeth Faue
6. Canada, Bryan Palmer
7. Australia, Greg Patmore
8. Germany, Klaus Tenfelde
9. India, Rana P. Behal, Chitra Joshi and Prabhu P Mohapatra
10. Japan, Takao Matsumura, John McIlroy and Alan Campbell
11. Labour History Beyond Borders, Marcel van der Linden