He is the President of the Western Conference of British Studies. He is the author of Workers, Unions and Payment in Kind: The Fight for Real Wages in Britain, 1820-1986 (Routledge, Forthcoming) and Master and Servant Law: Chartists, Trade Unions, Radical Lawyers and the Magistracy, 1840-1865 (Ashgate, 2010). He has published articles in the Journal of British Studies, Labour History Review, and Historical Studies in Industrial Relations.