caa a22 4500 386372993 CHVBK 20180307112005.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198904 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0020859000009068 doi S0020859000009068 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0020859000009068 Zeitlin Jonathan "Rank and Filism” and Labour History: A Rejoinder to Price and Cronin [Elektronische Daten] [Jonathan Zeitlin] Few theoretical paradigms in labour history are so deeply entrenched as "rank and filism”. It was only to be expected, therefore, that a frontal assault on its assumptions would provoke a vigorous reaction. The responses to my article by Richard Price and James Cronin thus offer a welcome opportunity to clarify the theoretical claims of "rank and filism” and reassess its empirical plausibility as an interpretation of British labour history. But as in any clash between rival theoretical perspectives, the points at issue in this debate extend beyond factual disagreements to the meaning of basic concepts and the standards of proof involved in their assessment, and neither party fully recognizes itself in the account of their ideas presented by the other. No accumulation of discordant facts can conclusively disprove a theory, as students of scientific revolutions have demonstrated, but readers will have to judge for themselves whether the counter-evidence I have presented amounts to minor discrepancies which can be satisfactorily accommodated within the assumptions of "rank and filism” or fundamental anomalies which necessitate the abandonment of the paradigm itself. Copyright © Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis 1989 International Review of Social History Cambridge University Press 34/1(1989-04), 89-102 0020-8590 34:1<89 1989 34 ISH https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020859000009068 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020859000009068 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Zeitlin Jonathan NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- International Review of Social History Cambridge University Press 34/1(1989-04), 89-102 0020-8590 34:1<89 1989 34 ISH CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge