The Future in our Past

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Review

This radical approach to the General Strike places the TUC's collective failure to believe centrally amongst the causes for its defeat. Today, it uncovers opportunities where others have emphasised weakness. It should be widely read — Huw Beynon, coauthor of The Shadow of the Mine A superb, innovative approach that interweaves a vivid historical account of the epic General Strike with perceptive social reportage on workers' struggles in the transformed world of employment today — Ralph Darlington, author of Labour Revolt in Britain 1910–14

About the Author

Callum Cant is the author of Riding for Deliveroo and coauthor of Feeding the Machine. He writes for the Guardian on strikes, the future of work and workers' rights. He is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Essex and co-editor of Notes from Below, a journal of worker writing. Matthew Lee is a librarian and independent researcher and co-editor of Notes from Below. He is a contributing author to the upcoming book Higher Education's Labor Upsurge.