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The Social Railway and its Workers in Europe’s Modern Era, 1880-2023

Moments of Fury, Ramparts of Hope

Dr David Welsh (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

240 Seiten

2025
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-50062-4 (ISBN)

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This thematically arranged book examines the evolution of rail transport and a number of railway workforces across Europe in the modern era, from around 1880 to 2023. Each chapter explores how, within the context of a social railway, rail workers developed distinct national and international perspectives on the nature of their work and their roles in societies and states. David Welsh convincingly argues that workers formed a raft of entirely new and enduring organisations such as trade unions that, in turn, became ramparts of hope. Welsh goes on to consider how the insurgent character of these organisations produced moments of fury during tumultuous periods in the 20th century. The Social Railway and its Workers in Europe’s Modern Era, 1880-2023 explores the national and European contexts in which both characteristics came to the fore, including the ecology of fossil fuel technology (coal and oil).

The book examines the cultural construction of European railways through literature, art and other forms of writing as well as recent oral history. It also includes a detailed investigation of the role played by nationalisation and public ownership in Europe; it reflects on why this remains a major talking point in the EU and a key part of the character of our railways today.

David Welsh is a retired railway worker, TUC tutor and part-time lecturer at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. He is the author of All in a Day’s Work: Working Lives and Trade Unions in Working Lives and Trade Unions in West London 1945- 1995 (2015) and Underground Writing: The London Tube from George Gissing to Virginia Woolf (2010). He is also the editor of Fortress Britain: Working Lives and Trade Unions in World War II (2005).

Preface John McDonnell MP
Introduction
1. The Geography of Class Power: Capital and Labour on Europe’s Railways
2. The Railway International
3. The Emergence of the Social Railway and Transport Intermediaries
4. Nationalisation and Socialisation
5. Militarism and Militarisation/Fascism and Anti-Fascism
Postscript: The Current Situation
Bibliography
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	24.7.2025
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Sozialgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-350-50062-3 / 1350500623
ISBN-13	978-1-350-50062-4 / 9781350500624
Zustand	Neuware