Fighting Words : Working-Class Formation, Collective Action, and Discourse in Early Nineteenth-Century England /

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A key component of social life, discourse mediates the processes of class formation and social conflict. Drawing on dialogic theory and building on the work of E. P. Thompson, Marc W. Steinberg argues for the importance of incorporating discursive analysis into the historical reconstruction of class...

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Autor principal: Steinberg, Marc W. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]
Temas:
British History.
History.
HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Tables
  • Preface
  • Abbreviations
  • PRELIMINARIES
  • Introduction: Theoretical and Historiographical Considerations
  • 1. Patterns of English Labor Contention in the Early Nineteenth Century
  • 2. A Tale of Two Areas
  • SPITALFIELDS
  • 3. The Silk Trade: Memory, Market, and Means of Production
  • 4. Local Political Culture: From Reciprocity to Hegemony
  • 5. The Repeal of the Spitalfields Acts
  • 6. Post-Repeal Collective Actions: Battling the Hydra of Degradation
  • ASHTON-STALYBRIDGE
  • 7. King Cotton: Markets, Mills, and Mechanics
  • 8. Class Structure, Class Cultures, and Social Lives
  • 9. Local Political Culture: The Stranglehold of Wealth
  • 10. The Vitriol of Conflict
  • 11. Class War: The Spinners' Strikes of 1830 -1831
  • 12. Class Formation, Collective Action, and the Role of Discourse
  • Appendix 1. Spitalfields weavers' collective actions, c. 1825-1831
  • Appendix 2. Ashton and Stalybridge spinners' collective actions, April 1830-January 1831
  • References
  • Index

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