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The Strike of the Glasgow Weavers, 1787 by Elspeth King
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The Strike of the Glasgow Weavers 1787 - 4/5
Read in Calton Book's new edition with trade unionist Harry McShane's initial article for the Glasgow Distirct's Trade Union Council in 1931 which was one of the first to do a written and researched piece on the Calton Weavers and the 1787 strike.
An easy to read and informative piece on one of the first recorded instances of worker's industrial action in Scotland, and the wider United Kingdom. Obviously limited by the lack of suriviving sources there's still a compelling and well researched narrative history here covering not just the 1787 strike but also the general history of the weaving trade in various areas around what is now all Glasgow, from the Calton to Govan, but with particular focus on the Calton. The legacy of these weavers, and their strike, deserves to be much more prominently remembered in Scotland, along with the later Radical War of 1820. The city's industrial legacy might be being ripped away but the radical history can remain a powerful call from the past to remake the future.
Alasdair Gray's portrait of Harry McShane in front of the Calton Weaver's Memorial.
Read in Calton Book's new edition with trade unionist Harry McShane's initial article for the Glasgow Distirct's Trade Union Council in 1931 which was one of the first to do a written and researched piece on the Calton Weavers and the 1787 strike.
An easy to read and informative piece on one of the first recorded instances of worker's industrial action in Scotland, and the wider United Kingdom. Obviously limited by the lack of suriviving sources there's still a compelling and well researched narrative history here covering not just the 1787 strike but also the general history of the weaving trade in various areas around what is now all Glasgow, from the Calton to Govan, but with particular focus on the Calton. The legacy of these weavers, and their strike, deserves to be much more prominently remembered in Scotland, along with the later Radical War of 1820. The city's industrial legacy might be being ripped away but the radical history can remain a powerful call from the past to remake the future.
Alasdair Gray's portrait of Harry McShane in front of the Calton Weaver's Memorial.