Subjects include (transcript page numbers given in brackets): exaggerated reputation of Glasgow MP Jimmy Mackeson (J1-J2); communist activists in railway workshops and other workplaces (J2-J4); difficulties of catholics in gaining regular employment in Glasgow and anti-catholicism among engineering workers there (J6-J8); role of the Independent Labour Party ‘Forward’ in lessening anti-catholicism and comparative lack of this sentiment in the 1930s (J8); Orangemen, Freemasons and friendly societies in Glasgow (J9-J13); beliefs of working-class conservative and liberals, for instance on free trade (J13-J15); liberals’ support for extension of the franchise and parliamentary action (J15); custom of tossing a brick to decide whether to resume work after a holiday (J15-J17); sleeping whilst working night-shifts on a battleship at Fairfield shipyard in 1912, and overtime rate for working on government contracts (J18-second J17); various engineering jobs done by McShane before, during and after the First World War (second J18-J23).
26 pages (2 pages 17 & 18)
Open
Recording at 842/17.
English
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