Diversities of Class and Gender Experience and the Shaping of Labor Politics: Yorkshire's Manningham Mills Strike, 1890-91 and the Independent Labour Party

Diversities of Class and Gender Experience and the Shaping of Labor Politics: Yorkshire's Manningham Mills Strike, 1890-91 and the Independent Labour Party

New evidence on gender and class reveals the diverse experiences of male and female workers in the worsted and in the rising silk plush industry in late nineteenth-century Bradford, Yorkshire and prompts a re-examination of the historiography surrounding the Manningham strike and labor politics. In...

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Published in:Labor history 2006-11, Vol.47 (4), p.511-535
Main Author: Blewett, Mary
Format: Article
Language:eng
Subjects:
Class differentiation
England
Gender
Gender differentiation
Historiography
Labor Parties
Labor Process
Labor unions
Labour history
Labour parties
Labour policy
Opposite Sex Relations
Political action
Political parties
Strikes
Studies
Textile Industry
Trade unionism
Unions
United Kingdom
Working Women
Yorkshire
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Summary:New evidence on gender and class reveals the diverse experiences of male and female workers in the worsted and in the rising silk plush industry in late nineteenth-century Bradford, Yorkshire and prompts a re-examination of the historiography surrounding the Manningham strike and labor politics. In the context of changing labor processes and the exclusionary policies of Yorkshire trade unionism, the striking velvet weavers in 1890-91 were developing their own political and organizational agenda based on gender cooperation and mutual support, similar to the trade unionism of Lancashire. This agenda was deflected by the rise of the Independent Labour Party and the onset of long-term industrial crisis in the West Riding.
ISSN:0023-656X
1469-9702