At the height of the South African summer this year, Ralph Darlington and Edward Webster met. It was not the first time they had met. But it was the first occasion that they gathered under the weights and glories of the thrilling new epistemologies thrown out in their respective new books: Darlington’s Labour Revolt in Britain, 1910 – 1914, and Recasting Workers’ Power: Work and Inequalities in the Shadow of the Digital Age, by Eddie Webster with Lynford Dor.