Irish immigrants in Scotland's shipyards and coalfields: employment relations, sectarianism and class formation

摘要: This article examines relations between Catholic and Protestant Irish immigrants in two Clydeside towns, Govan Kinning Park, Lanarkshire mining Airdrie Coatbridge, for the half century after 1841. It finds evidence of greater social distance sectarian conflict particularly from eighteen-fifties onwards, than on Clydeside. seeks to explain these differences terms collapse trade union organization north 1850 as against its vigorous development among all grades workers shipbuilding eighteen-sixties.