Trade union banners and the construction of a working‐class presence: notes from two labour disputes in 1980s Glasgow and North Lanarkshire

Crossan, John; Featherstone, David; Hayes, F; Hughes, Helen MacGill; Jamieson, Craig; Leonard, Richard C.

doi:10.1111/area.12272

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“…Further to this emphasis on unintended copings, and building on the work of Crossan et al (2016), the article has supported the use of moral economy approaches and perspectives in labour geography. Such perspectives it is argued, are useful as a means to better understanding worker solidarities and rationales, and for revealing 'the struggle below the surface of the homogeneity of the capitalistic system between different parties that evaluate, renegotiate, revise and re-establish the conditions they live under' (Bolton and Laaser 2013: 515).…”

Section: Future Directions For Labour Geography 315mentioning

confidence: 92%

Moral Matters: De‐Romanticising Worker Agency and Charting Future Directions for Labour Geography

Hastings

2016

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The rise of labour geography over the last 20 years has ensured that labour politics, worker rights and employment‐related struggles have remained strong themes in economic geography. This article provides an updated review of labour geography's development, charting its expansion from an early focus on organised spatial ‘resistance’ at a range of scales, to a more varied project incorporating a wider range of analytical and empirical inquiries. Despite this progression the paper suggests that work is still needed to address a gap in moral considerations within labour geography as a whole. Specifically a moral economy approach is offered as a means of explaining the decision‐making processes/rationales behind worker actions in the context of particular struggles. This includes a necessary focus on less celebratory, ethical or successful forms of coping with labour market challenges on the part of workers than have typically been discussed in the case studies of labour geography.

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Section: Future Directions For Labour Geography 315mentioning

confidence: 92%

Moral Matters: De‐Romanticising Worker Agency and Charting Future Directions for Labour Geography

Hastings

2016

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“…When understood through the lens of usable past‐making, labour and political history archives can be positioned as central components of “counter narratives” within places (see Jordan & Weedon, ) and thus asserted as a central element of a contemporary working‐class presence (Crossan et al., ). This more politicised understanding illuminates the possibilities for “retrieval as an act of rebellion” (Rowbotham, , p. xv), whereby archives inform social‐political movements of the present.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…This presence can be found within museums such as the People's Palace and innovations such as “Glasgow's Doors Open Days,” yet large elements of this history still remain marginalised and far less visible. Thus, the significance of the archives considered below is further emphasised by a city context of “culture‐led regeneration” that has arguably “effaced a history of working‐class presence and marginalises an active radical political tradition in Glasgow” (see Crossan et al., , p. 359).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…SOR makes their intervention from an activist perspective that aims to raise awareness and heighten engagement with elements of Glasgow's history that previously have been overlooked. Both archives promote a usable sense of the past and this emphasis is aligned with trends towards participation within historical geography, whereby researchers increasingly work alongside archives, museums and communities (Crossan et al., ).…”

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Making usable pasts: Collaboration, labour and activism in the archive

Griffin

2017

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The precarious labour geography of shaping political left histories is raised in this paper to engage with and deepen accounts of the archive within geography and beyond. The focus of the paper is on the provision of radical history in Glasgow through two archive collections within the city. The analysis raises the politics of archival research practices and is positioned within a context of increasingly difficult economic circumstances for libraries, archives and museums. The insights emerging from interviews with archive representatives reveal multiple issues relating to the provision of usable pasts and asserts the continued importance of archives within places such as Glasgow. In this regard, the archive is positioned as a place of collaboration, labour and activism to suggest an alternative understanding of archival practice.

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“…This is empirically shown by Crossan et al . () and their work on Trade Union Banners held within the Glasgow Museums Collection.…”

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‘The will to empower’: reworking governmentality in the museum

Beel

2017

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A number of geographers have sought to develop the museum as a space ripe for geographical enquiry and to comprehend the positioning of the museum. This paper aims to contribute to this burgeoning field of museum geography in order to consider the ways in which museum spaces rework notions of governmentality. First, this paper seeks to comprehend how museums (specifically municipal museums) are positioned within processes of governance and how, as a state actor, they develop a form of soft disciplinary power. Second, the paper follows such a strategy, as it traces the pathways taken by participants involved in a community engagement project based at GoMA (Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow) in Glasgow. The project engaged a group of adult learners in a variety of cultural and arts activities. This allowed the group to explore a series of issues in contemporary art and it engaged them in different forms of creative practice. The community engagement work sought to improve their confidence and aspirations as well as to expand their creative abilities

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Trade union banners and the construction of a working‐class presence: notes from two labour disputes in 1980s Glasgow and North Lanarkshire

Cited by 16 publications

References 21 publications

Moral Matters: De‐Romanticising Worker Agency and Charting Future Directions for Labour Geography

Moral Matters: De‐Romanticising Worker Agency and Charting Future Directions for Labour Geography

Making usable pasts: Collaboration, labour and activism in the archive

‘The will to empower’: reworking governmentality in the museum

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