An Atlas of Industrial Protest in Britain: 1750-1990.

This book, the work of five main authors and four other contributors, has its origins in Charlesworth and Southall's contribution on labour protest and unionisation in J. Langton and J. Morris (eds.), Atlas of Industrializing Britain, 1780-1914 (1986) and Charlesworth's An Atlas of Rural Protest in Britain, 1548-1900 (1983). Twenty-five case studies and three essays on records and the geography of strikes are tied together by a short introduction and further introductory essays to each of the book's sections, 1760-1850, 1850-1900, 1900-39 and 1940-90. The Atlas is less comprehensive than its predecessors and its selectivity and a failure to provide a checklist of disputes will …