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After UCS: Workplace Occupation in Britain in the 1970s (2021)
Journal Article
Tuckman, A. (2021). After UCS: Workplace Occupation in Britain in the 1970s. Labour History Review, 7 - 35. https://doi.org/10.3828/lhr.2021.2

<jats:p> This paper traces the development of this form of industrial action through the 1970s, the emergence of an alternative economic voice, ultimately almost silenced in the 1980s with the dominance of neo-liberalism, leaving a sedimental alterna... Read More about After UCS: Workplace Occupation in Britain in the 1970s.

Poor-law institutions through working-class eyes: autobiography, emotion, and family context 1834-1914 (2021)
Journal Article
Tomkins. (2021). Poor-law institutions through working-class eyes: autobiography, emotion, and family context 1834-1914. Albion, 285-309. https://doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2020.242

Histories of the English workhouse and its satellite institutions have concentrated on legal change, institutional administration, and moments of shock or scandal, generally without considering the place of these institutions, established through the... Read More about Poor-law institutions through working-class eyes: autobiography, emotion, and family context 1834-1914.

He shall have care of the garden, its cultivation and produce’: Workhousegardens and gardening, c.1780-1835 (2021)
Journal Article
(2021). He shall have care of the garden, its cultivation and produce’: Workhousegardens and gardening, c.1780-1835. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 21-39. https://doi.org/10.1111/1754-0208.12717

Where productive workhouse gardens and land existed they comprised an essential aspect of institutional management, yet they feature only briefly in accounts of workhouses and inmates' lives. Their location, desirability and benefits, however, occupi... Read More about He shall have care of the garden, its cultivation and produce’: Workhousegardens and gardening, c.1780-1835.