Ralph Darlington
@ralphdarlington.bsky.social
Emeritus Professor of Employment Relations, Uni Salford; ‘Labour Revolt in Britain 1910-14’ @PlutoPress; researching for a new political biography of the legendary labour leader Tom Mann https://www.salford.ac.uk/our-staff/ralph-darlington
‘Vocabularies of motive and the 2022-23 strike wave in Britain’,
Professor Sian Moore, Anglia Ruskin University
Manchester Industrial Relations Society Annual Shirley Lerner Lecture Thursday 15 May 6-7.30pm – hybrid event mirs.org.uk
Professor Sian Moore, Anglia Ruskin University
Manchester Industrial Relations Society Annual Shirley Lerner Lecture Thursday 15 May 6-7.30pm – hybrid event mirs.org.uk
April 29, 2025 at 10:12 AM
‘Vocabularies of motive and the 2022-23 strike wave in Britain’,
Professor Sian Moore, Anglia Ruskin University
Manchester Industrial Relations Society Annual Shirley Lerner Lecture Thursday 15 May 6-7.30pm – hybrid event mirs.org.uk
Professor Sian Moore, Anglia Ruskin University
Manchester Industrial Relations Society Annual Shirley Lerner Lecture Thursday 15 May 6-7.30pm – hybrid event mirs.org.uk
Happy birthday to the legendary labour agitator and organiser Tom Mann - 1856-1941 @sslh.bsky.social @buiraonline.bsky.social @strikemap.bsky.social @mrcwarwick.bsky.social @keithbeard.bsky.social @jirjournal.bsky.social @iassc.bsky.social @redhen90.bsky.social
April 15, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Happy birthday to the legendary labour agitator and organiser Tom Mann - 1856-1941 @sslh.bsky.social @buiraonline.bsky.social @strikemap.bsky.social @mrcwarwick.bsky.social @keithbeard.bsky.social @jirjournal.bsky.social @iassc.bsky.social @redhen90.bsky.social
Superb meeting at the Working Class Movement Library last night with indomitable fighters Eileen Turnbull and Terry Renshaw on ‘A Very British Conspiracy: The Shrewsbury 24 and the Campaign for Justice’ - would highly really recommend Eileen’s book @sslh.bsky.social @keithbeard.bsky.social
April 4, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Superb meeting at the Working Class Movement Library last night with indomitable fighters Eileen Turnbull and Terry Renshaw on ‘A Very British Conspiracy: The Shrewsbury 24 and the Campaign for Justice’ - would highly really recommend Eileen’s book @sslh.bsky.social @keithbeard.bsky.social
This wonderful classic text - which includes Hal Draper’s famous pamphlet ‘The Two Souls of Socialism’ - makes the case that genuine liberation can only come from below, from the self-activity of workers and ordinary people @haymarketbooks.bsky.social @sslh.bsky.social @strikemap.bsky.social
April 1, 2025 at 6:52 AM
This wonderful classic text - which includes Hal Draper’s famous pamphlet ‘The Two Souls of Socialism’ - makes the case that genuine liberation can only come from below, from the self-activity of workers and ordinary people @haymarketbooks.bsky.social @sslh.bsky.social @strikemap.bsky.social
My favourite art gallery in Manchester, the Whitworth, positively buzzing with people to see this great new exhibition on Women in Revolt - to be recommended
March 26, 2025 at 2:15 PM
My favourite art gallery in Manchester, the Whitworth, positively buzzing with people to see this great new exhibition on Women in Revolt - to be recommended
Graphic multidimensional analysis of the highs and lows of Australian trade unionism over the last 60 years in one crucial illustrative industry, with broader implications for all those committed to rebuilding strong and militant trade unionism today @sslh.bsky.social @strikemap.bsky.social
March 24, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Graphic multidimensional analysis of the highs and lows of Australian trade unionism over the last 60 years in one crucial illustrative industry, with broader implications for all those committed to rebuilding strong and militant trade unionism today @sslh.bsky.social @strikemap.bsky.social
Pleased to see my books in good company on the shelves at Warwick University’s library @iassc.bsky.social @strikemap.bsky.social @sslh.bsky.social @sslh.bsky.social @redhenpress.bsky.social @keithbeard.bsky.social @buiraonline.bsky.social
March 13, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Pleased to see my books in good company on the shelves at Warwick University’s library @iassc.bsky.social @strikemap.bsky.social @sslh.bsky.social @sslh.bsky.social @redhenpress.bsky.social @keithbeard.bsky.social @buiraonline.bsky.social
Superb new book that charts a century of activist and mass resistance. Wealth of photos interwoven with firsthand witness accounts alongside analysis by people like Dianne Atkinson. Paul Gilroy, Kate Hudson, Mary Kalder, Gary Younge, Leila Hassan Howe and edited by Steve McQueen
March 11, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Superb new book that charts a century of activist and mass resistance. Wealth of photos interwoven with firsthand witness accounts alongside analysis by people like Dianne Atkinson. Paul Gilroy, Kate Hudson, Mary Kalder, Gary Younge, Leila Hassan Howe and edited by Steve McQueen
Back to the Modern Records Centre @MRCWarwick at Uni of Warwick this week to further peruse the wonderful Tom Mann collection of correspondence, diaries, scrapbooks, publications and photographs @mrcwarwick.bsky.social
@sslh.bsky.social @strikemap.bsky.social
@sslh.bsky.social @strikemap.bsky.social
March 5, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Back to the Modern Records Centre @MRCWarwick at Uni of Warwick this week to further peruse the wonderful Tom Mann collection of correspondence, diaries, scrapbooks, publications and photographs @mrcwarwick.bsky.social
@sslh.bsky.social @strikemap.bsky.social
@sslh.bsky.social @strikemap.bsky.social
Just received my copy of Richard Hyman’s new book - ‘The author who revolutionised the study of industrial relations in the 1970s returns with this….masterful introduction to the past, present + future of employment relations’
@bjireditor.bsky.social
@buiraonline.bsky.social
@keithbeard.bsky.social
@bjireditor.bsky.social
@buiraonline.bsky.social
@keithbeard.bsky.social
March 4, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Just received my copy of Richard Hyman’s new book - ‘The author who revolutionised the study of industrial relations in the 1970s returns with this….masterful introduction to the past, present + future of employment relations’
@bjireditor.bsky.social
@buiraonline.bsky.social
@keithbeard.bsky.social
@bjireditor.bsky.social
@buiraonline.bsky.social
@keithbeard.bsky.social
Wonderful (newly reissued, larger format and much expanded) photographic record of one of the most defining events of British history - the great miners’ strike of 1984-5 - available from Bookmarks bookshop in London
December 23, 2024 at 8:02 AM
Wonderful (newly reissued, larger format and much expanded) photographic record of one of the most defining events of British history - the great miners’ strike of 1984-5 - available from Bookmarks bookshop in London
The incredible @redhen90.bsky.social co-founder of @strikemap.bsky.social. explains the importance of rank-and-file activist strike solidarity and fanning the flames of struggle that lies behind tonight’s launch of the annual report @GFTU1
December 5, 2024 at 6:39 PM
The incredible @redhen90.bsky.social co-founder of @strikemap.bsky.social. explains the importance of rank-and-file activist strike solidarity and fanning the flames of struggle that lies behind tonight’s launch of the annual report @GFTU1
Putting struggle on the map - launch of Strike Map’s annual report on strikes in 2023 in @MechanicsManch @redhen90.bsky.social
@strikemap.bsky.social
@strikemap.bsky.social
December 5, 2024 at 6:16 PM
Putting struggle on the map - launch of Strike Map’s annual report on strikes in 2023 in @MechanicsManch @redhen90.bsky.social
@strikemap.bsky.social
@strikemap.bsky.social
A unique photo book showing the best work of the photographers who stood with the miners’ strike in 1984-85 and lived in the mining communities. For details of how to buy the book and for praise for it see
minersstrike.com?fbclid=IwZXh...
minersstrike.com?fbclid=IwZXh...
November 27, 2024 at 8:36 AM
A unique photo book showing the best work of the photographers who stood with the miners’ strike in 1984-85 and lived in the mining communities. For details of how to buy the book and for praise for it see
minersstrike.com?fbclid=IwZXh...
minersstrike.com?fbclid=IwZXh...
I just signed @BFAWUOfficial petition to @Morrisons CEO Rami Baitiéh to #Stopthejobcuts at Rathbones bakery in Wakefield.
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November 22, 2024 at 7:35 AM
I just signed @BFAWUOfficial petition to @Morrisons CEO Rami Baitiéh to #Stopthejobcuts at Rathbones bakery in Wakefield.
✍️Add your signature here
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Despite being published 50 years ago this text by Richard Hyman undoubtedly remains an indispensable theoretical foundation for a Marxist understanding of the political economy of industrial relations and dynamics of trade unionism under capitalism
November 21, 2024 at 10:19 AM
Despite being published 50 years ago this text by Richard Hyman undoubtedly remains an indispensable theoretical foundation for a Marxist understanding of the political economy of industrial relations and dynamics of trade unionism under capitalism
There is no contradiction between being both objective and partisan in social science studies
November 20, 2024 at 10:23 AM
There is no contradiction between being both objective and partisan in social science studies
‘The Reading Girl’ by Giovanni Ciniselli, bought in Italy and donated to Manchester Central Library in 1938, where it is still prominently displayed
November 19, 2024 at 12:42 PM
‘The Reading Girl’ by Giovanni Ciniselli, bought in Italy and donated to Manchester Central Library in 1938, where it is still prominently displayed
…and for online attendance register here: gftuet.org.uk/courses/trad...
November 18, 2024 at 4:49 PM
…and for online attendance register here: gftuet.org.uk/courses/trad...
I’m really looking forward to this: ‘1910-1920: From Syndicalism to Revolution!’ - hybrid meeting at the Working Class Movement Library, Weds 4 Dec 7:00pm- 8.30pm. In Person Register: actionnetwork.org/events/gftu-...
November 18, 2024 at 4:49 PM
I’m really looking forward to this: ‘1910-1920: From Syndicalism to Revolution!’ - hybrid meeting at the Working Class Movement Library, Weds 4 Dec 7:00pm- 8.30pm. In Person Register: actionnetwork.org/events/gftu-...
Wonderful new issue of North West Labour History Journal for 2025 now out - with articles on (amongst other topics) the Labour League of Youth, Shrewsbury 24 Campaign, 1984-5 miners’ strike, and Sylvia Pankhurst
November 18, 2024 at 11:25 AM
Wonderful new issue of North West Labour History Journal for 2025 now out - with articles on (amongst other topics) the Labour League of Youth, Shrewsbury 24 Campaign, 1984-5 miners’ strike, and Sylvia Pankhurst
History in the Making - poster offering reward for information about a foremost advocate of physical force Chartism who headed the poll for the executive of the National Charter Association in both 1841 and 1842
November 16, 2024 at 10:07 AM
History in the Making - poster offering reward for information about a foremost advocate of physical force Chartism who headed the poll for the executive of the National Charter Association in both 1841 and 1842
How to be a revolutionary
November 15, 2024 at 12:31 PM
How to be a revolutionary
‘Woman Worker’ edited by Mary MacArthur, paper of the National Federation of Women Workers - an all-female trade union organisation that made determined efforts to utilise strike action as the chief means of organising women workers
November 15, 2024 at 8:00 AM
‘Woman Worker’ edited by Mary MacArthur, paper of the National Federation of Women Workers - an all-female trade union organisation that made determined efforts to utilise strike action as the chief means of organising women workers
The 1910-14 Labour Revolt was one of the most sustained, dramatic, and violent explosions of industrial militancy and social conflict Britain has ever experienced @PlutoPress
November 14, 2024 at 2:38 PM
The 1910-14 Labour Revolt was one of the most sustained, dramatic, and violent explosions of industrial militancy and social conflict Britain has ever experienced @PlutoPress