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 |
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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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