DiscoverLabour Days: a labour movement podcastEp 19: The Sheffield Workers' Committee 1914-1920
Ep 19: The Sheffield Workers' Committee 1914-1920

Ep 19: The Sheffield Workers' Committee 1914-1920

Update: 2019-05-02
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In the midst of the First World War, engineering workers in Sheffield built a shopfloor organisation that confronted the bosses, the state, and the conservatism of their own union leaders. We discuss how and why.

For the background to this episode, check out Edd’s pamphlet, available to buy here: https://spokesmanbookshop.com/epages/36621f87-f6e8-411d-b941-d46fe29be74c.mobile/en_GB/?ObjectPath=/Shops/36621f87-f6e8-411d-b941-d46fe29be74c/Products/Mustill1&Locale=en_GB

Also, JT Murphy’s ‘The Workers' Committee: An Outline of its Principles and Structure’ is pretty seminal: https://www.marxists.org/archive/murphy-jt/1917/xx/workers_committee.htm

We apologise for the sound quality of this episode, which was recorded without our producer Liam’s oversight and was therefore always likely to be an aural disaster.
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Ep 19: The Sheffield Workers' Committee 1914-1920

Ep 19: The Sheffield Workers' Committee 1914-1920

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