1910 saw a renewed outbreak of industrial strife as significant sections of the trade union rank-and-file began to express their frustration at the lack of progress made in their struggle for better working conditions and a new social order.\u00a0 Strikes reached levels not seen since the \u2018new unionism\u2019 upsurge of 1889-92.\u00a0 Worker unrest combined with clashes over Home Rule for Ireland and the militant tactics of suffrage campaigners added to the problems of the ruling class who, confronted by these parallel rebellions, feared their convergence and some warned of the danger of revolution.<\/p>\n
Bristol and the Labour Unrest<\/em> charts Bristol\u2019s experience of industrial strife between 1910 and the outbreak of the First World War in August 1914. Rather than focus on some of Bristol\u2019s famous union leaders such as Ben Tillett and Ernest Bevin, this account scrutinises the events from the union rank-and-file perspective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 1910 saw a renewed outbreak of industrial strife as significant sections of the trade union rank-and-file began to express their frustration at the lack of progress made in their struggle for better working conditions and a new social order.\u00a0 Strikes reached levels not seen since the \u2018new unionism\u2019 upsurge of 1889-92.\u00a0 Worker unrest combined with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":22479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[212,197],"tags":[670,251,1832,672,667,668,669,671,1831,622],"class_list":["post-5444","pamphlets","type-pamphlets","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-class","category-workers-organisations-strikes","tag-avonmouth","tag-ben-tillett","tag-bristol-tramways-and-carriage-company","tag-bristol-tramways-strike","tag-great-unrest","tag-jim-larkin","tag-tom-mann","tag-tonypandy","tag-trams","tag-world-war-i","pub_range-bristol-radical-pamphleteer"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n