Ralph Darlington is emeritus professor of employment relations at Salford University. He has published a number of books, including Glorious Summer: Class Struggle in Britain, 1972 and Radical Unionism: The Rise and Fall of Revolutionary Syndicalism.

06.23.2023

• Ralph Darlington

Britain’s Great Labor Revolt Was a High Point of Working-Class Power

In the years leading up to World War I, Britain was rocked by an unprecedented upsurge of labor militancy. Millions of workers began to learn their own strength and posed a major challenge to the social order.