Great Unrest

The Great Unrest, also known as the Great Labour Unrest, was a period of labour revolt between 1911 and 1914[1] in the United Kingdom. The agitation included the 1911 Liverpool general transport strike, the Tonypandy riots, the National coal strike of 1912 and the 1913 Dublin lockout. It was United Kingdom's most significant labour unrest since the Industrial Revolution but is not as widely remembered as the 1926 general strike. The period of unrest was labelled "great" not because of its scale, but due to the level of violence employed by both the state and labourers; including deaths of strikers at the hands of police and sabotage on the part of the workers.[2]

  1. ^ Béliard, Yann (January 2014). "Introduction: Revisiting the Great Labour Unrest, 1911-1914". Labour History Review. 79 (1): 1–17. doi:10.3828/lhr.2014.1. ISSN 0961-5652.
  2. ^ Béliard 2014.