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Class or Company Loyalty?

The printing industry and the events of May 1926 in Bristol

By Mike Richardson
“Our courage was percolating through our fingertips”. Class or Company Loyalty? explores the experiences of unionised workers employed in two companies, one large, one small, operating in Bristol’s printing industry before, during and immediately after the General Strike. Mike Richardson traces the history of the changing power dynamics between capital and labour at the two workplaces and considers what impact the strike had on industrial relations at these companies. The common theme running […]
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Deference and Dissent

Labour relations in a family firm

By Mike Richardson
J. W. Arrowsmith Ltd, 1855–1927 Deference and Dissent provides a window into the working lives of compositors, letterpress machinists, and bookbinders and their relationships with their employer. It looks at their collective voice, disputes, strikes, workplace culture, mechanisation of typesetting, as well as the impact of other significant factors such as the First World War and the economic slump in the early 1920s. Mike Richardson’s work contributes to understanding the complexity of the […]
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Tremors of Discontent

My Life in Print 1970-1988

By Mike Richardson
While there are many academic studies of workers’ resistance and consciousness during the 1970s and 1980s, few accounts relate the personal-political experiences of the activists involved. Tremors of Discontent, however, explores how Mike Richardson’s individual consciousness came to change during that period. It shows how gradually his participation in trade union and left politics broke through his boyhood reserve, intensified by the external political, economic and social circumstances. By […]
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