Red Clydeside: A history of the labour movement in Glasgow 1910-1932
Selected Bibliography
Dec 2002
The following bibliography contains suggested reading on the topics of Red Clydeside and the Scottish and British labour movements during the early decades of the twentieth century. The bibliography is intended as a starting point for those who wish to go on to further study and research on the history of labour politics in the Clydeside region and in Scotland as a whole. The bibliography includes many of the books and journal articles that were used in preparing the Red Clydeside website.
- Bell, Tom
- Pioneering days
London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1941
- Breitenbach, Esther and Gordon, Eleanor
- Out of Bounds: Women and Scottish Society 1800-1945
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press
- Briggs, A. and Saville, J. (eds)
- Essays in Labour History, 1886-1923
London: Macmillan, 1971
- Brown, Gordon
- Maxton
Edinburgh: Mainstream, 1986
- Brown, James
- From radicalism to socialism Paisley engineers, 1890-1920
London: History Group of the Communist Party, 1980
- Cage, R.A. (ed)
- The Working Class in Glasgow, 1750-1914
London: Croom Helm, 1987
- Caldwell, John Taylor
- Come Dungeons Dark: The Life and Times of Guy Aldred
Ayrshire: Luath Press, 1988
- Croucher, Richard
- We refuse to starve in silence: a history of the National Unemployed Workers' Movement, 1920-46
London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1987
- Cullen, Stephen M.
- The British Union of Fascists in
Scotland
Proceedings of the Association of Scottish Historical Studies,
(1994), 116-123
- Damer, Sean
- The Clydebank Rent Strike of the 1920s
Glasgow: Clydebank District Library, 1982
- Donnachie, Ian and Harvie, Christopher (Eds)
- Forward!: Labour politics in Scotland 1888-1988
Polygon: Edinburgh, 1989
- Duncan, Robert and McIvor, Arthur (Eds)
- Militant Workers: Labour and class conflict on the Clyde 1900-1950
Edinburgh: John Donald, 1992
- Foster, John
- Strike action and working class politics on Clydeside 1914-1919
International Review of Social History, 1990
- Gallagher, Willie
- Revolt on the Clyde
London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1936
- Glasgow Labour History Workshop
- The Singer strike Clydebank, 1911
Clydebank: Clydebank District Library, 1989
- Glasgow Labour History Workshop
- Glasgow 1919: The Story of the 40 hours Strike
Glasgow: Molendinar Press, 1970
- Gordon, Eleanor
- Women and the Labour Movement in Scotland, 1850-1914
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991
- Hannan, John
- The life of John Wheatley
Nottingham: Spokesman, 1988
- Hinton, James
- The First Shop Stewards' Movement
London: Allen & Unwin, 1973
- Johnston, Ronnie
- Clydeside Capital: A Social History of Employers
East Linton: Tuckwell Press, 2001
- Johnston, Tom
- The history of the working classes in Scotland
Glasgow: Forward Publishing Co, 1922
- Kenefick, William and McIvor, Arthur (eds)
- The roots of Red Clydeside, 1910-1914
Edinburgh: J.Donald, 1996
- Kirkwood, Davie
- My Life of Revolt
London: Harrap & Co Ltd, 1935
- Klugmann, J
- History of the Communist Party of Great Britain. Vol.1: Formation and early years, 1919-1924
London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1966
- Klugmann, J
- History of the Communist Party of Great Britain. Vol.2:
The General Strike, 1925-1926
London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1969
- Knox, William (ed)
- Scottish Labour leaders,1918-39
Edinburgh: Mainstream, 1984
- Knox, William
- James Maxton
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1987
- MacFarlane, Leslie J.
- The British Communist Party: It's origins and developments until 1929
London: MacGibbon and Kee, 1966
- McKinlay, Alan and Morris, R.J. (eds)
- The ILP on Clydeside, 1893-1932: from foundation to disintegration
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1991
- MacLean, Ian
- The legend of Red Clydeside
Edinburgh: J.Donald,1983
- McNair, John
- James Maxton: The beloved rebel
Allen & Unwin, 1955
- McShane, Harry
- No mean fighter
London: Pluto Press, 1978
- Maitles, Henry
- Blackshirts across the border: The British Union of Fascists in Scotland
Journal of Contemporary History
- Melling, Joseph
- Rent Strikes: Peoples' struggle for housing in West Scotland 1890-1916
Edinburgh: Polygon, 1983
- Melling, Joseph
- Whatever happened to Red Clydeside?
International Review of Social History, 1990
- Middlemass, Keith
- The Clydesiders: A Left-wing struggle for Parliamentary power
London: Hutchison, 1965
- Milton, Nan
- John Maclean
London: Pluto Press, 1973
- Morris, R.J.
- Skilled workers and the politics of the 'Red Clyde'
Scottish Labour History Journal, 1983
- Pelling, Henry
- The British Communist Party
A&C Black, 1958
- Rae, John
- Conscience and Politics : The British Government and the Conscientious Objector to Military Service, 1916 - 1919
London: Oxford University Press, 1970
- Ripley, B.J. and McHugh, J.
- John Maclean
MUP: Manchester, 1989
- Robbins, Keith
- The Abolition of War: the peace movement in Britain, 1914-1919
Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1976
- Rubin, Gerry
- War, Law and Labour: The Munitions Acts, State, Regulation and the Unions, 1915-1921
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987
- Shinwell, Emmanuel
- Conflict without malice
London: Oldhams, 1955
- Smyth, J.J.
- Labour in Glasgow 1896-1936: Socialism, Suffrage and Sectarianism
East Linton: Tuckwell Press, 2000
- Thompson, Willie
- The Good old cause: British communism 1920-1991
London: Pluto Press, 1992
- Young, John D.
- The very bastards of creation: Scottish International radicalism 1707-1995
Glasgow: Clydeside Press, 1997