英国工会史上“最具革命性”的旗帜?政治身份和“红色”矿工横幅的诞生、生活、炼狱和重生

IF 0.5 3区 历史学 Q1 HISTORY
Lewis Mates
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自20世纪70年代初,工会旗帜的历史和肖像学首次被认真视为研究课题以来,它的探索程度令人惊讶地不足。在这些早期的描述中,对一个在同时代人看来稍纵即逝的时代的怀旧之情显而易见,考虑到最近工会示威活动的复兴,这种怀旧之情显得尤为不协调。这篇文章试图通过关注followsby矿工小屋的横幅来纠正这种平衡。1928年,在英格兰东北部达勒姆煤田北部边缘的一个矿坑村,弗朗斯比矿工的旗帜首次亮相,后来被誉为英国历史上最具革命性的工会旗帜的最重要候选人。这种未经证实的说法本身就很重要,因为英国的大规模工会运动的特点是温和,不愿参与激进的政治;这一观察大体上代表了有影响力的英国煤矿工人工会,更具体地说,代表了达勒姆煤田本身的矿工。这篇文章的论点既有狭义的,也有广义的。狭义地说,它认为,福伦斯比横幅有强烈的理由被认为是英国最具革命性的,尽管“革命性”是在某些理论和具体背景下理解的。更广泛的争论发展了这样一种说法,即对Follonsby横幅的肖像学更重要的是,对其“革命”资格的质疑过程揭示了20世纪及以后英国主流左翼政治文化的复杂性。从这个更广泛的角度来看,弗朗斯比的横幅——肖像、出生、生命、炼狱和重生——对其好奇的代表来说更重要,而不是作为一个“极端革命”的局外人的个性化存在。
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The “most revolutionary” banner in British trade union history? Political identities and the birth, life, purgatory, and rebirth of the “red” Follonsby miners’ banner
Abstract The history and iconography of trade union banners has been surprisingly under-explored since it was first taken seriously as a subject of study in the early 1970s. The nostalgia evident in these early accounts for an age that seemed to contemporaries then to be fleeting seems particularly incongruous given the more recent reinvigoration of the trade union demonstration. This article seeks to redress the balance by focusing on the Follonsby miners’ lodge banner. First unveiled in 1928, in a pit village on the northern edge of Durham coalfield in northeast England, the Follonsby miners’ banner was later hailed as a foremost candidate for the most revolutionary trade union banner in British history. This unsubstantiated claim is important in itself, as mass trade unionism in Britain is characterized by moderation and a reluctance to engage in radical politics; an observation that broadly stands for the influential British coal miners’ unions and, more specifically, for the miners of the Durham coalfield itself. The article's argument has both narrow and broad dimensions. Narrowly, it argues that the Follonsby banner has a strong claim to be regarded as the most revolutionary in Britain, albeit with “revolutionary” understood in certain theoretical and context-specific ways. The broader argument develops the claim that the iconography of the Follonsby banner is more significant for what the process of interrogating its “revolutionary” credentials reveals about the complexities of the political culture of the mainstream British Left in the twentieth century and after. In this broader respect, the Follonsby banner—iconography, birth, life, purgatory, and rebirth—is more important for its curious representatives rather than its individuated existence as an “extreme revolutionary” outlier.
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期刊介绍: ILWCH has an international reputation for scholarly innovation and quality. It explores diverse topics from globalisation and workers’ rights to class and consumption, labour movements, class identities and cultures, unions, and working-class politics. ILWCH publishes original research, review essays, conference reports from around the world, and an acclaimed scholarly controversy section. Comparative and cross-disciplinary, the journal is of interest to scholars in history, sociology, political science, labor studies, global studies, and a wide range of other fields and disciplines. Published for International Labor and Working-Class History, Inc.
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