Class and Other Identities / Gender, Religion, and Ethnicity in the Writing of European Labour History – Lex Heerma van Voss, Marcel van der Linden Nieuw

With the onset of a more conservative political climate in the 1980s, social and especially labour history saw a decline in the popularity that they had enjoyed throughout the 1960s and 1970s. This led to much debate on its future and function within the historical discipline as a whole. Some critics declared it dead altogether. Others have proposed a change of direction and a more or less exclusive focus on images and texts. The most constructive proposals have suggested that labour history in the past con…