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Planned Expansion

Hi all! Since this article is currently categorized as a stub, I will be working on expanding it for the next few days/weeks. Some broad topics I would like to cover include:

First World War, initial rate negotiations with the government
Post-war industrial boom, effect on industrial and railway workers
Activity during the strike, government response
Impact and legacy of the strike

In addition to the sources currently employed, I am looking at using some of the following:

If you have any objections to me working on this article, topics you’d like me to cover, objections to the sources I’ve chosen, or sources you’d recommend, please let me know! Spookyaki (talk) 20:33, 15 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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+== Planned Expansion ==
+Hi all! Since this article is currently categorized as a stub, I will be working on expanding it for the next few days/weeks. Some broad topics I would like to cover include:
+* First World War, initial rate negotiations with the government
+* Post-war industrial boom, effect on industrial and railway workers
+* Activity during the strike, government response
+* Impact and legacy of the strike
+In addition to the sources currently employed, I am looking at using some of the following:
+* [https://uhra.herts.ac.uk/handle/2299/20187 "The 1919 Railway Strike: the Government’s Response" by Joshua Edgcombe, Master’s Thesis, published by the University of Hertfordshire]
+* [[wikisource:Engines_and_Men|''Engines and Men'' by J.R. Raynes, available on Wikisource]]
+* [https://search.worldcat.org/title/1280804028 ''The Long Weekend: A Social History of Great Britain, 1918-1939'' by Robert Graves, published by Penguin Books]
+* [https://hornseyhistorical.org.uk/national-railway-strike-october-1919/ "The National Railway Strike, October 1919" by Clemmie Butler-Brown, published by the Hornsey Historical Society]
+* [https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/post-war-societies-great-britain-and-ireland/ "Post-war Societies (Great Britain and Ireland)" by Caitríona Beaumont, published by the International Encyclopedia of the First World War]
+* [https://www.cravenherald.co.uk/news/23243324.raikeswood-pow-camp-1919-national-railway-strike/ "Raikeswood POW Camp and the 1919 National Railway Strike" by Alan Roberts, published by the ''Craven Herald & Pioneer'']
+* [https://search.worldcat.org/title/1352631268 ''The Railwaymen. Volume 1, The History of the National Union of Railwaymen'' by Philip Sidney Bagwell, published by Routledge]
+* [https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00358531909412239 "The Railway Strike," published in ''The Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs'']
+If you have any objections to me working on this article, topics you’d like me to cover, objections to the sources I’ve chosen, or sources you’d recommend, please let me know! [[User:Spookyaki|Spookyaki]] ([[User talk:Spookyaki|talk]]) 20:33, 15 September 2024 (UTC)