Sidney Pollard

Sidney Pollard was a pioneering labour historian who influenced the gret luminaries in the field, E.P. Thompson and E.J. Hobsbawm. Almost single-handedly, he pioneered the study of eceonomic management in history and the understanding of the economic processes by which regions are formed. As a labour historian, his contribution to the study of the marginalized in society was original and vital. His history was intimately connected with his personal life - from escape to Britain from Nazi-occupied Vienna on the Jewish kindertransporte, to work in Britain, the USA, Israel and apartheid South Africa.

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David Renton is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Sunderland.

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Preface and Acknowledgments - vii
Chapter 1: Introduction - 1
Chapter 2: Life and Learning - 7
Chapter 3: The Struggle for Recognition - 33
Chapter 4: Life on the Left - 55
Chapter 5: Unsung Heroes Behind Them - 77
Chapter 6: Masters and Men - 93
Chapter 7: Banks versus Industry - 107
Chapter 8: From Britain to Europe - 122
Chapter 9: Marginal Man? - 139
Notes - 152
Bibliography - 188
Index - 212