-
Essay / The Influence of the Lockout of 1913 - 1541
In this essay we will examine the Lockout of 1913 and how the Lockout influenced the future landscape of an independent Ireland. We will examine the prelude to the lockout and the results of the lockout. We will trace the issues that caused the lockout and analyze how the lockout took Ireland in a direction it could not change. Across Britain, divisions between the labor movement and employers had deepened considerably by the start of the 20th century. century. Strikes occurred frequently in many places, but it appears that industrial relations had stabilized by the beginning of the second decade of the century. For the most part, Dublin had escaped labor unrest. In 1900, the Dublin Chamber of Commerce confidently declared: "We are pleased to note the increasing readiness of all classes to unite to promote the best interests of our country." This harmony did not last and in 1913 the Dublin Labor movement was involved in a serious conflict with employers, known as the Lockout. One of the major problems of this period was that of housing. Today, most people believe that everyone has the right to live in a clean and safe environment. This clean and safe environment certainly did not exist for everyone who lived in Dublin. At the time of the lockout, many unskilled workers were living in extreme poverty. Housing conditions were appalling and many people were exposed to disease and infection. Overcrowding in large houses called tenements favored this spread of the disease. The slums of Dublin were as bad as anywhere else at the time. More than twenty thousand families lived in a single-room dwelling. Upper class houses of the past were converted to allow greedy landlords to have as many tenants as possible...... middle of paper ...... 1913 Ireland 'Dorney, John,' Class War in Dublin – The Lockout of 1913'O'Riordan, Tomás A, 'Dublin, 1913—Strike and Lockout' http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/ http://www.nli.ie/ lockout/Dorney, John, 'Remembering the lockout'. 27 August 2013 http://1913committee.ie/blog/ The Dublin 1913 LockoutYeates, Padraig, 'The Dublin 1913 Lockout' Published in 20th-century / Contemporary History, Features, Issue 2 (Summer 2001), Volume 9.McCabe, Conor , “Your Only God is Profit”: Irish Class Relations and the Lockout of 1913” in David Convery (ed) Locked Out: A Century of Irish Working-Class Life (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2013). http://www.ictu.ie/download/pdf/health_safetyclips.pdf Connolly, James, The Workers' Republic: a selection from the writings of James Connolly (NuVision Publications, LLC, 1951).http://www.ucc.ie /celt/published/E900007-005/index.html