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Lockout: Dublin 1913 Paperback – September 18, 2013

by Padraig Yeates (Author)
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Lockout is the story of the most famous labor dispute in Irish history. On August 26, 1913 the trams stopped running in Dublin. Striking conductors and drivers, members of the Irish Transport Workers' Union, abandoned their vehicles. They had refused a demand from their employer, William Martin Murphy of the Dublin United Transport Company, to forswear union membership or face dismissal. The company then locked them out. Within a month, the charismatic union leader, James Larkin, had called out over 20,000 workers across the city in sympathetic action. By January 1914 the union had lost the battle, lacking the resources for a long campaign. But it won the war: 1913 meant that there was no going back to the horrors of pre-Larkin Dublin.
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  1. Print length
    670 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Gill & Macmillan
  4. Publication date
    September 18, 2013
  5. Dimensions
    6 x 0.25 x 8.75 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0717128911
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0717128914
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"This volume is essential reading for anyone interested in Irish labour, the history of industrial relations and ... Dublin society in the early twentieth century." -- Dermot Keogh The Irish Times "... a concentrated, authentic and definitive account of an event that has had a major influence on the political, economic, social and cultural life of this country." --John Carroll Irish Independent

Yeates' magisterial new study provides a comprehensive overview of Dublin society in the early 20th century. . . Filled with the struggles and spirit of the period, making it the go-to resource for anyone interested in the labor history of the nation. --Irish Voice

About the Author

Padraig Yeates is a journalist, trade union activist and author. His other books include A City in Wartime: Dublin 1914-18 (2011) and A City in Turmoil: Dublin 1919-21 (2012). At present, he is Industry and Emplyment correspondent of The Irish Times.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Gill & Macmillan (September 18, 2013)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 670 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0717128911
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0717128914
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.38 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.25 x 8.75 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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BERNARD CLARKE
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M. O'Hara
4.0 out of 5 stars Comprehensive History of a Historic Labor Dispute
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I thought this was an excellent and well-written account of the specific dispute. The length of the book is due to Mr. Yeate's inclusion, properly and informatively so, of the other major issues of the day (Nationalism and Home Rule, the role of the Catholic Church, Socialism/Syndicalism, suffragism, Unionism and Partition, the 1916 uprising, and WW1).
As an Irish-American with only a rudimentary understanding of Irish history, I found this account very valuable as a way to understand the different shades of opposition to English imperialism in Ireland prior to the 1916 Uprising. Reading this history has also helped me immensely in understanding the difficulties in implementing the current Peace Process.
It is interesting that, according to Mr. Yeates, no detailed account of this event had been written, although it is frequently mentioned as a lead-up to the 1916 Uprising. As pointed out by Mr. Yeates, the total lack of involvement by Dublin Castle (the English Establishment) in this life-and-death dispute for so many showed the Irish that Irish affairs were very low on the English agenda.
The awfuul and pervasive poverty in Dublin, which inspired the unions to carry out this sruggle, was a real indictment of capitalism and English rule of Ireland.
My only disappointment was the lack of background and personal information on Jim Larkin, the fiery, inspiring, charismatic, and sometimes-destructive leader of the Transport Workers Union, whose strike against the Dublin trams led to the lockout by a unified group of employers.
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A Word In Your Ear
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant and well researched, a go-to book for this period
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 23, 2016
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At 45 chapters this is a long read, but an absorbing one. The author explores in great detail the background to the Dublin Lock-out, the increasing militarism of the time, the personalities at the forefront, the syndicalism at the heart of the ITGWU and indeed the syndicalism of the employers who 'ganged up' on the strikers.

The book is divided into three parts Stars in their Courses, Saving the children and War to the Knife.
Padraig Yeates argues that the strike (beginning with the Tramway worker), was unnecessary but inevitable, as the only way in which the workers could gain any concessions was by going out in sympathy with each other. "An injury to one is the concern of all"
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The figure of James Larkin, the charismatic leader of the strike is well drawn, as is his enemy William Martin Murphy, Chair of the Dublin Chamber of Commerce. Yeates spends some time painting a background picture of the social & political unrest that persisted before 1913, and draws together the various sources of conflict and bitterness (poverty, Europe's worst slums in Dublins, the Home Rule Crisis, the arming of Unionists up north, rising food costs and falling wages, and an increasing sense among Irish workers that the rights they sought would never be attained under a British government. This was the beginning of socialism working hand in hand with a militant nationalism. The Lock-out was seen as a dress rehearsal for the Rising of 1916.

The author also explores the role of the DMP and RIC in dealing with riots and unrest, and neither organisation emerges with honour from his account, particularly that of Bloody Sunday, though he makes a fair assessment of the pressure under which the police were placed, and the fact that they too sustained casualties. The description of baton charges and gratuitous beatings of innocent bystanders is very graphic and makes for difficult reading.

Unfortunately I do not have time to do this book full justice. I could easily write a review running into the equivalent of several chapters, such is the density and wide range of its remit. What I most liked about the book was the way in which Yeates pulled together all the different aspects of the dispute, giving a very well rounded picture of its triggers, its underlying causes, the personalities who drove the action - and how the Lock out became the harbinger of a rebellion with far greater consequences than a labour dispute. The author 's narrative is also leavened with a certain dry humour, particularly in his account of the 'kiddies scheme' and the furore which it provoked among the Catholic clergy and the emerging Catholic middle class. Without being disrespectful towards any religious persuasion, Yeates outlines the underlying sectarian divisions in Dublin at that time, and how these divisions played out in the attempts to provide meals and basic support to the children of strikers.

Other themes explored are the ambivalent relationship of the ITGWU with its British counterparts, the equally ambivalent role of the Irish Parliamentary Party, the failure of Dublin Corporation to address the slum conditions and to provide adequate social housing (thanks to their fear of alienating middle class voters by raising revenue through increased rates). The author examines these & many other issues, in order to build up a bigger picture, against which the strike and later the Rebellion played out.

Yeates claims that he wrote the book out of 'intellectual curiosity', I think he has produced something of real weight, and scholarship. I am still in the process of digesting it, and I'm sure I will return to it again and again.
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