The Social Railway and Its Workers in Europe’s Modern Era, 1880-2023
Moments of Fury, Ramparts of Hope
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 24 July 2025
- Number of Volumes Hardback
- ISBN 9781350500624
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages216 pages
- Size 236x156x18 mm
- Weight 480 g
- Language English 673
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Long description:
This thematically arranged book examines the evolution of rail transport and a number of railway workforces across Europe in the modern era, from around 1880 to 2023.
Each chapter explores how, within the context of a social railway, rail workers developed distinct national and international perspectives on the nature of their work and their roles in societies and states. David Welsh convincingly argues that workers formed a raft of entirely new and enduring organisations such as trade unions that, in turn, became ramparts of hope. Welsh goes on to consider how the insurgent character of these organisations produced moments of fury during tumultuous periods in the 20th century. The Social Railway and its Workers in Europe's Modern Era, 1880-2023 explores the national and European contexts in which both characteristics came to the fore, including the ecology of fossil fuel technology (coal and oil). Above all, it argues that social, economic and political forces are not simply external 'scene-shifting' but integral to the history of railway systems.
The book examines the cultural construction of European railways through literature, art and other forms of writing as well as recent oral history. It also includes a detailed investigation of the role played by nationalisation and public ownership in Europe. In the context of neoliberalism and globalization, it proposes a 21st century programme for the social railway.
Table of Contents:
Preface John McDonnell MP
Introduction
1. The Geography of Class Power: Capital and Labour on Europe's Railways
2. The Railway International
3. The Emergence of the Social Railway and Transport Intermediaries
4. Nationalisation and Socialisation
5. Militarism and Militarisation/Fascism and Anti-Fascism
Postscript: The Current Situation
Bibliography
Index
