Labour and Society in Britain and America
Leicester University Press (Verlag)
978-0-7185-1496-9 (ISBN)
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A comparative study of workers, organized labour and society in 19th- and 20th-century Britain and America. It explains the formative influences on, and main characteristics of, the development of workers' movements in the two countries; it situates the labour movement's institutions in their wider social context; and it traces the interactions between economic and other "hard facts of life" and the conscious attempts of workers to shape their own destinies. Neville Kirk demonstrates that American "exceptionalism" has been exaggerated - he ascribes the significant, though not overwhelming, differences in the two nations' experiences to the comparatively inflexible British political system, to Britain's greater social homogeneity and to the less successful attempts of British employers to destroy workers' organizations.
Volume I Capitalism, custom and protest, 1780-1850: Part 1 The process of capitalist transformation and the roots of popular and working-class protest, 1780s-1850s: definitions and arguments; the process of capitalist transformation; the household - from domestic economy to outwork; the workshop - from custom to conflict; the factory - the shock of the new; agriculture - markets, custom and conflict; the process of capitalist transformation; politics, ideology and culture - class and citizenship. Part 2 Class and fragmentation - popular and working-class movements before the 1860s: the presence of class - radicalism from the 1820s to the 1840s; the United States; Britain; protest movements in Britain and the United States, 1820s-1840s - an assessment; fragmentation - labour movements from the 1840s to the 1860s; the United States; Britain; the roots of fragmentation - the United States and Britain. Volume II Challenge and accommodation: capitalist development and the transformation of labour from the 1870s to the 1920s; challenge and accommodation - patterns of workplace organization and protest from the 1860s to the 1920s; integrated citizenship and working class emancipation - politics, ideology and culture from the mid-19th century to the 1920s; advances and retreats - the inter-war years.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 22.7.1993 |
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| Zusatzinfo | indices |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Sozialgeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| Wirtschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7185-1496-3 / 0718514963 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7185-1496-9 / 9780718514969 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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