How can we build a trade union that works for all its members? Mark Pendleton on how it was not only strikes and solidarity in Australia that made him, but also his family’s conservatism and lifelong distrust of unions
Tag: Trade Union history
The Radical Potential of Teach Outs
Teach outs help us remember what a university could be: Katherine Weikert on the value of teach outs in strike action.
Strike Syllabus
History Workshop’s crowd-sourced Strike Syllabus offers texts to inspire and galvanise, to stir righteous anger or provide necessary solace.
Banner Tales: material culture and the making of solidarity
Banner Tales is a collaboration between geographers and Glasgow Museums staff. The project has encouraged reflection on the relationship between material cultures and the makings of solidarity.
Radical Objects: Casts of Joseph Arch’s Hands
An exploration of the plaster casts of the first labouring man to enter Parliament, and founder of the National Agricultural Labourer’s Union, Joseph Arch, written by Karen Sayer
Whose Archive? Whose History? Destruction of Archives at Ruskin College, Oxford
While some valuable material is now saved from acts of philistinism the destruction of Ruskin’s past has not yet finished.
