Sidney Pollard (born Sigfried Pollak; 21 April 1925 – 22 November 1998) was a British economic and labour historian, and Professor at the University of Sheffield.
[5] His father had arrived in Vienna before 1914, and his mother shortly after the beginning of the First World War to escape anti-Semitic riots.
This school made students aware of the Jewish tradition to mediate and was therefore an early target of anti-Semitic attacks.
After the Anschluss (annexation of Austria to the German Reich) in 1938, the family lost their home and Moses Pollak was dismissed.
However, despite the support of the university, immigration authorities refused him the permanent work permit because of his temporary membership in the Communist Party.
[4] Pollard's work on economic and labour historian focussed on Anglo-American developments, which he compared with contemporary research.
In 1997, Pollard published his Marginal Europe, in which he describes the diminishing of former industrial zones since the late Middle Ages.
[4] Pollard died from a heart attack at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital in Sheffield on 22 November 1998, at the age of 73.