Irish immigrants in Scotland's shipyards and coalfields: employment relations, sectarianism and class formation

Foster, J., Houston, M. and Madigan, C. (2011) Irish immigrants in Scotland's shipyards and coalfields: employment relations, sectarianism and class formation. Historical Research, 84(226), pp. 657-692. (doi: 10.1111/j.1468-2281.2010.00554.x)

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Abstract

This article examines relations between Catholic and Protestant Irish immigrants in two Clydeside towns, Govan and Kinning Park, and two Lanarkshire mining towns, Airdrie and Coatbridge, for the half century after 1841. It finds evidence of greater social distance and sectarian conflict in the Lanarkshire towns, particularly from the eighteen-fifties onwards, than on Clydeside. It seeks to explain these differences in terms of the collapse of trade union organization in north Lanarkshire after 1850 as against its vigorous development among all grades of workers in Clydeside shipbuilding from the eighteen-sixties.

Item Type:Articles
Status:Published
Refereed:Yes
Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID:Houston, Dr Muir
Authors: Foster, J., Houston, M., and Madigan, C.
Subjects:H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform
College/School:College of Social Sciences > School of Education > Social Justice Place and Lifelong Education
College of Social Sciences > School of Education > People, Place & Social Change
Journal Name:Historical Research
ISSN:0950-3471
Published Online:04 August 2010

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