Great Unrest

The Great Unrest, also known as the Great Labour Unrest, was a period of labour revolt between 1911 and 1914 in the United Kingdom. The agitation included the 1911 Liverpool general transport strike and the 1913 Dublin lockout. It was the region's most significant labour unrest since the mid-1800s Chartist movement but is not commemorated at the magnitude of the 1926 general strike or 1984 miners' strike. The epithet of "great" came from the violence from both the state and the protesters, between infantrymen opening fire, sabotage, and riots.[1]

The 1911 strike over working conditions and union recognition cost three million workdays across a half-million rail, sea, and dock workers. The next year lost 40 million workdays, mostly from miners. The 1911–1913 period included over 3,000 strikes, which continued into the first half of 1914.[1]

References

1. Béliard 2014.

Bibliography

• Béliard, Yann (April 2014). "Introduction: Revisiting the Great Labour Unrest, 1911–1914". Labour History Review. 79: 1–17. doi:10.3828/lhr.2014.1.

Further reading

• Bantman, Constance (2014). "The Franco-British Syndicalist Connection and the Great Labour Unrest, 1880s-1914". Labour History Review. 79 (1): 83–96. doi:10.3828/lhr.2014.5. ISSN 0961-5652.
• Darlington, Ralph (October 2016). "British labour movement solidarity in the 1913-14 Dublin Lockout". Labor History: 1–22. doi:10.1080/0023656X.2016.1239872.
• Davies, Sam; Noon, Ron (2014). "The rank-and-file in the 1911 Liverpool General Transport Strike". Labour History Review. 79 (1): 55–81. doi:10.3828/lhr.2014.4. ISSN 0961-5652.
• Hyslop, Jonathan (2014). "The Strange Death of Liberal England and the Strange Birth of Illiberal South Africa: British Trade Unionists, Indian Labourers and Afrikaner Rebels, 1910-1914". Labour History Review. 79 (1): 97–120. doi:10.3828/lhr.2014.6. ISSN 0961-5652.
• Kenefick, William; McIvor, Arthur; Glasgow Labour History Workshop (Organization), eds. (1996). Roots of Red Clydeside, 1910-1914?: labour unrest and industrial relations in West Scotland. Edinburgh: J. Donald. ISBN 978-0-85976-434-6. OCLC 35801378.
• Mates, Lewis H (2016). The great labour unrest: rank-and-file movements and political change in the Durham coalfield. Manchester: Manchester University Press. ISBN 978-0-7190-9068-4. OCLC 949908606.
  • Barnes, Harry (2017-02-10). "Book Review: The Great Labour Unrest: Rank-and-File Movements and Political Change in Durham Coalfield by Lewis Mates". LSE Review of Books. Retrieved 2020-03-30.
  • Beliard, Yann (2019). "The Great Labour Unrest. Rank-and-File Movements and Political Change in the Durham Coalfield". Anarchist Studies. 27 (1): 103. ISSN 0967-3393.
  • Howard, Stuart (2017). "The Great Labour Unrest: rank-and-file movements and political change in the Durham coalfield". Social History. 42 (1): 121–123. doi:10.1080/03071022.2016.1253343. ISSN 0307-1022 – via Taylor & Francis.
  • Howell, David (March 2018). "The Great Labour Unrest: Rank-and-File Movements and Political Change in the Durham Coalfield, by Lewis H. Mates". The English Historical Review. 133 (560): 217–219. doi:10.1093/ehr/cex396. ISSN 0013-8266.
  • Laybourn, Keith (2018). "Review of The Great Labour Unrest: Rank-and-File Movements and Political Change in the Durham Coalfield, MatesLewis H". Labour / Le Travail. 82: 288–290. doi:10.2307/26551562. ISSN 0700-3862. JSTOR 26551562.
  • Selway, David (December 2017). "The Great Labour Unrest: Rank-and-File Movements and Political Change in the Durham Coalfield. By Lewis H. Mates". Twentieth Century British History. 28 (4): 618–620. doi:10.1093/tcbh/hww056. ISSN 0955-2359.
  • Stirling, John (2017-06-22). "Book Review: The Great Labour Unrest: Rank-and-File Movements and Political Change in the Durham Coalfield by Lewis H. Mates:". Capital & Class. doi:10.1177/0309816817703872h.
• O'Connor, Emmet (January 2014). "Old Wine in New Bottles? Syndicalism and 'Fakirism' in the Great Labour Unrest, 1911-1914". Labour History Review. 79 (1): 19–36. doi:10.3828/lhr.2014.2. ISSN 0961-5652.
• Pelling, Henry (1968). "The Labour Unrest, 1911–1914". Popular politics and society in late Victorian Britain: essays. ISBN 978-0-312-63070-6. OCLC 233477.
• Richards, Jill (2014). "Model Citizens and Millenarian Subjects: Vorticism, Suffrage, and London's Great Unrest". Journal of Modern Literature. 37 (3): 1–17. doi:10.2979/jmodelite.37.3.1. ISSN 0022-281X. JSTOR 10.2979/jmodelite.37.3.1.
• Sires, Roland V. (1955). "Labor Unrest in England, 1910–1914". The Journal of Economic History. 15 (3): 246–266. ISSN 0022-0507. JSTOR 2114656.
• Thompson, James (2014). "The Great Labour Unrest and Political Thought in Britain, 1911-1914". Labour History Review. 79 (1): 37–54. doi:10.3828/lhr.2014.3. ISSN 0961-5652.
• Wilson, Matt Vaughan (2008). "The 1911 Waterfront Strikes in Glasgow: Trade Unions and Rank-and-File Militancy in the Labour Unrest of 1910–1914". International Review of Social History. 53 (2): 261–292. ISSN 0020-8590. JSTOR 44583059.