Tracing Your Docker Ancestors by Alex Ombler

Author:Alex Ombler
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: REFERNCE/Genealogy&Heraldry
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Published: 2019-04-29T00:00:00+00:00

RECOMMENDED READS

A large body of work on the history of trade unionism has been completed. The following highlights the best reads relating to collective action on the docks. Not surprisingly there are a number of books about the Great Dock Strike of 1889; amongst the best are Terry McCarthy’s The Great Dock Strike, 1889 (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988) and The Great Dock Strike, 1889 (London: Longman, 1974) by David Wasp and Alan Davis.

There are several good books available regarding the early development of trade unionism at particular ports. For London see Dock, Wharf, Riverside and General Workers’ Union: A Brief History of the Dockers Union, Commemorating the 1889 Dock Strike (Twentieth Century Press, 1910) by Ben Tillett, and John Lovell’s Stevedores and Dockers: A Study of Trade Unionism in the Port of London, 1870-1914 (MacMillan, 1969); early Liverpool unionism is the focus of Liverpool Dockers and Seamen 1870-1890 (University of Hull Publications, 1974) and The Dockers’ Union: A Study of the National Union of Dock Labourers, 1889-1922 (Leicester University Press, 1985), both by Eric Taplin; William Kenefick’s ‘Rebellious and Contrary’: The Glasgow Dockers, 1853–1932 (Tuckwell Press, 2000) is essential for reading for Glasgow and Clydeside; Those interested in Hull should read Waterfront Organization in Hull, 1870-1900 (University of Hull Publications, 1972) by Raymond Brown and Keith Brooker’s The Hull Strikes of 1911 (East Yorkshire Local History Society, 1979).

The best publication on the dockers’ unofficial industrial action after the Second World War is William ‘Bill’ Hunter’s They Knew Why They Fought: Unofficial Struggles and Leadership on the Docks 1945-1989 (Index Books, 1994). There are two good short studies that give detailed insights into the events surrounding the arrival of the ‘Blue Union’ in the northern ports; John Archer’s The Struggle for an Independent Trade Union by the Dockers in Merseyside and Hull during 1954-1955 (1995) and How the Blue Union came to Hull Docks (1995) by Keith Sinclair.

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