Radicalism and respectability in the development of labour organisations

Roberts, I.

doi:10.1017/s0038038599000528

Radicalism and respectability in the development of labour organisations

Roberts, I.

Authors

I. Roberts

Abstract

Rosemary Aris, Trade Unions and the Management of Industrial Conflict. London: Macmillan, 1998, £42.50 (£15.99 pbk), vii+201 pp. (ISBN 0-333-65798-5 hbk; 0-333-65799-3 pbk). Huw Beynon and Terry Austrin, Masters and Servants: Class and Patronage in the Making of a Labour Organisation. London: Rivers Oram Press, 1998, £12.95, xvii+403 pp. (ISBN 1-85489-001-8 hbk; 1-85489-000-X pbk). These books are both concerned with the historical development of labour organisations. There is overlap in the time periods concerned, with Aris looking at the role of trade unions and the State in the management of industrial conflict in the years 1910–21, and Beynon and Austrin, whilst focusing more sharply on the single case of the Durham miners, covering the period from the beginning of the nineteenth century until the end of the 1930s. Here the similarities end and while both books succeed well in their own terms, they contrast greatly in their methodology and ultimately their whole approaches to historical sociology.

Citation

Roberts, I. (1999). Radicalism and respectability in the development of labour organisations. Sociology, 33(4), 831-834. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0038038599000528

Journal Article Type	Article
Publication Date	1999-11
Deposit Date	Aug 4, 2008
Publicly Available Date	Aug 4, 2008
Journal	Sociology
Print ISSN	0038-0385
Electronic ISSN	1469-8684
Publisher	SAGE Publications
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	33
Issue	4
Pages	831-834
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1017/s0038038599000528
Keywords	Trade unions, Industrial conflict, Durham miners.