... making” as distinct from house building Levi Strauss Claude self making of through housing House Domestic Space Construction Industry Construction Workers Transnationalism Remittances Time, as it were, fuses together with space and flows in it (forming the road); this is the source of the rich...

... paramilitary-led violence and collapsed in May 1974 as a result of the Ulster Workers’ Council Strike. Yet, many of the ideas first articulated in this period would resonate in later attempts to cultivate peace and foster a democratic. This collection asks what became of those ideas and what lessons can we...

...Provides an analysis of the class nature of the Titoist regime and critically discusses the origin and tensions in self-management by examining workers’ everyday experience. Stalin Josef Tito Josep Broz Churchill Winston de Gaulle Charles Greece Italy Marshall Aid Mihailović Draža partisans...

... the NILP and British Labour Party (BLP) deteriorated to an all-time low in the years immediately following the Ulster Workers' Council (UWC) strike. By the mid-1970s the NILP's political fortunes had taken a dramatic downswing. The Campaign for Labour Representation (CLR) consistently lobbied the BLP...

...The French military conquest of Algeria was ruthless. Dispossessed of their land, peasants were pushed ever higher into mountainous areas. Many became agricultural workers on European-owned farms, migrant workers in France or moved to urban slums in search of work. By the early twentieth century...

...–1921 Figure 2.5 Comparative population indices for Stafford and selected areas, 1801–1911 (1801 = 100) This chapter links migrants’ origins in Ireland and their settlement in Stafford. Many came from the area around Castlerea, Co. Roscommon and before the Famine came as seasonal workers...

... trapped in poverty. The nuclear Larkin or Mullarkey family demonstrated arrested integration and apparent division over whether to retain or reject an Irish identity. The chapter argues that one reason for long-term transience was career advancement amongst skilled or public service workers but another...

...This chapter explores the life histories of girl domestic workers, exploring how they found their first jobs, their perspectives on their working conditions and pay, their experiences of spatial and social mobility, and their relationships with employers and kin. It reveals how girls used...

... the region were regulated and monitored as part of broader efforts to discipline workers, police racial boundaries, and maintain social order. After independence, the Zambian state took a more detached approach towards domestic service than its colonial predecessor and the sector declined as a topic...

...Based on interviews and ethnographic research with Ukrainian female domestic workers in Italy, this chapter looks into the often taboo topic – intimate, romantic, and sexual relations formed in the course of migration by women migrating alone. These relations are often seen as a side product...

... as possible. Nkrumah also travelled around the UK, not only to seek support for WANS, but as a member of the Coloured Workers’ Association, campaigning against the many forms of racial discrimination in the UK. Why do I think this was the beginning of the Cold War in at least Ghana? The Cold War was attempts...

... the ‘idle rich’, and by mid-century they were thought to be a thing of the past. The need for leisure for the well-off, especially ‘brain-workers’, was, however, a constant theme of commentators in the later nineteenth century, leading to calls for ‘a gospel of leisure’ to sit alongside ‘a gospel of work...

...Claude McKay ended his days hating England and the civilisation it represented. McKay journeyed from New York after an absence of more than seven years from his native Jamaica. He was the first Caribbean intellectual to describe what it meant to be black in Britain. His membership of the Workers...

... Stolen Generations wages amah Indian Domestic service houseboys British colonialism Settler colonialism Exploitation colonialism Darwin Singapore Second World War Decolonisation Foreign domestic workers This book has explored the relationship between British colonialism and domestic service...

... the publication of the Northern Ireland Constitutional Proposals in March 1973 and the collapse of the power-sharing executive at the hands of the Ulster Workers’ Council (UWC) in May 1974. It will consider how opposition to Sunningdale created short-lived unity among disparate strands...

.... Their initial concern was advocating the rights of the unemployed. Many of the former employees at Standard-Triumph who originally voted to resist closure went on to become founding members and leading lights of this newfound unemployed workers’ movement. The achievements of this group included their successful...

... of the 1960s and 1970s, has come to be regarded as lacking in any real intellectual interest. This is followed by a brief discussion of shipyard workers and social relations in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain. An overview of the three parts of the book is also presented. labour historians...

... present an alternative radical homelessness politics rooted in anarchist political theory and the praxis of Food Not Bombs and the Catholic Workers. This approach seeks to personalize the homeless, while maintaining a systemic critique of capitalism. The chapter ends with a road map for the coming...

... of the Kurdistan Workers' Party. The chapter also highlights the view of the state, and of its Western and secular establishments and elite, that Muslim manifestations are detrimental to the very existence of modern Turkey. Ergil Dogu identity quest for Islam nationalism Turkish Grey Wolf paramilitary youth...

... Councils of Action General Strike 1926 grassroots trade union councils Hull and Humber Port cities Transport workers Trades Councils Trade-unionism Working-class politics Trades Councils are prominent actors in all general histories of the labour movement: the foundation of the Trades Union...