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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
When the Clyde ran red paints a vivid picture of the heady days when revolution was in the air on Clydeside. Through the bitter strike at the huge Singer Sewing machine plant in Clydebank in 1911, Bloody Friday in Glasgow's George Square in 1919, the General Strike of 1926 and on through the Spanish Civil War to the Clydebank Blitz of 1941, the people fought for the right to work, the dignity of labour and a fairer society for everyone. They did so in a Glasgow where overcrowded tenements stood no distance from elegant tea rooms, art galleries, glittering picture palaces and dance halls. Red Clydeside was also home to Charles Rennie Mackintosh, the Glasgow Style and magnificent exhibitions showcasing the wonders of the age. Political idealism and artistic creativity were matched by industrial endeavor: the Clyde built many of the greatest ships that ever sailed, and Glasgow locomotives pulled trains on every continent on earth. In this book Maggie Craig puts the politics into the social context of the times and tells the story with verve, warmth and humour. |
| Contents |
Intro; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Preface; 1 Rebels, Reformers & Revolutionaries; 2 The Tokio of Tea Rooms; 3 Earth's Nearest Suburb to Hell; 4 Sewing Machines & Scientific Management; 5 An Injury to One Is an Injury to All: The Singer Strike of 1911; 6 No Vote, No Census; 7 The Picturesque & Historic Past: The Scottish Exhibition of 1911; 8 Radicals, Reformers & Martyrs: The Roots of Red Clydeside; 9 Halloween at the High Court; 10 Not in My Name; 11 A Woman's Place; 12 Death of a Hero: The Funeral of Keir Hardie. |
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13 Mrs Barbour's Army: The Rent Strike of 191514 Christmas Day Uproar: Red Clydeside Takes on the Government; 15 Dawn Raids, Midnight Arrests & a Zeppelin over Edinburgh: The Deportation of the Clyde Shop Stewards; 16 Prison Cells & Luxury Hotels; 17 John Maclean; 18 Bloody Friday, 1919: The Battle of George Square; 19 The Red Clydesiders Sweep into Westminster; 20 The Zinoviev Letter; 21 Nine Days' Wonder: The General Strike of 1926; 22 Ten Cents a Dance; 23 Sex, Socialism & Glasgow's First Birth Control Clinic; 24 The Flag in the Wind; 25 Socialism, Self-Improvement & Fun. |
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26 The Hungry '30s; 27 Pride of the Clyde: The Launch of the Queen Mary; 28 The Spanish Civil War; 29 On the Eve of War: The Empire Exhibition of 1938; 30 The Clydebank Blitz; Legacy; Select Bibliography; Index. |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
Strikes and lockouts -- Scotland -- Glasgow -- History -- 20th century.
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Strikes and lockouts. |
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Scotland -- Glasgow. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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Strikes and lockouts -- Scotland -- Clydebank -- History -- 20th century.
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Scotland -- Clydebank. |
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Glasgow (Scotland) -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
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Clydebank (Scotland) -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
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Glasgow (Scotland) -- History -- 20th century.
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Clydebank (Scotland) -- History -- 20th century.
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Craig, Maggie. When the Clyde ran red. [Place of publication not identified] : Birlinn, 2018 1780275064 9781780275062 (OCoLC)1005683667 |
| ISBN |
9780857909961 (electronic book) |
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0857909967 (electronic book) |
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1780275064 |
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9781780275062 |
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