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Tracing Your Labour Movement Ancestors: A Guide for Family Historians (Tracing your Ancestors) Paperback – March 10, 2010

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If you want to find out about the life of an ancestor who was active in the labor movement or was a union member, this handbook will be a fascinating introduction to the subject. Mark Crail provides a graphic and authoritative account of the history of the labor movement in Britain from the early nineteenth century to the modern day. He gives a vivid insight into the key stages in the development of labor relations - the battles fought by labor movement pioneers, the formation of the first unions, the influence of Chartism and the early socialist societies, the rise of the Labor Party and other left-wing groups, and the impact of organized labor on workers’ lives as ordinary people gradually won the right to vote over the course of 200 years. At the same time he describes in detail the various books, museums, archives, websites and other resources that researchers can use to explore labor history for themselves and to uncover the careers and experience of their ancestors. A mass of information is available relating to individuals and to labor history in general, and this handbook is an invaluable guide to it. 'Tracing Your Labor Movement Ancestors' should be essential reading for anyone who wishes to learn about the origins and development of the labor movement and the role of individuals within it.

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176 pages
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English
Publisher

Pen and Sword
Publication date

March 10, 2010
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5.75 x 0.5 x 8.25 inches
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1848840594
ISBN-13

978-1848840591
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"…provides a good balance between explanatory history and records contents because this is an area of research often overlooked and rarely addressed…may just have the answers you need to put your ancestors in context."
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Mark Crail is an editor, writer and researcher with more than 25 years' experience in print and online. He is a member of the National Union of Journalists, and holds the National Council for the Training of Journalists qualification in newspaper journalism.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Pen and Sword; First Edition (March 10, 2010)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 176 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1848840594
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1848840591
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11.2 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.75 x 0.5 x 8.25 inches

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Shewri

tracing labour ancestors made easy

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 15, 2014

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I have some way to go but have found a mayor of Sunderland and two uncles who were Labour councillors and am trying to find my great grand mothers involvement in the early days of the Labour movements who knows who else I will find.

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F SHARP

Labour Movement History

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 6, 2011

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Whilst the overall topics covered are of general interest, many of the recommended reference portals and websites just don't exist and hence much of the value of this "reference" book is lost for those readers intending to use this publication to "trace your Labour Movement ancestors"

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Loribee

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 3, 2015

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Glad to have it - useful background

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