Victorian labour history : experience, identity and the politics of representation /

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Orthodox historical accounts of popular experience in mid-Victorian Britain suggest certain homogenous and seemingly clear stable social and political orders. Host re-examines the historical debate and challenges conventional interpretations.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Host, John, 1946-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.
Subjects:
Labour Party (Great Britain) > History.
Labour Party (Great Britain)
1800-1999
Working class > Political activity > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Labor movement > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Representative government and representation > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
Chartism > History.
Travailleurs > Activité politique > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Mouvement ouvrier > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Gouvernement représentatif > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Chartisme > Histoire.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Process > Political Advocacy.
Chartism
Labor movement
Representative government and representation
Working class > Political activity
Great Britain
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Narratives of the past or histories of the present?; Social identity and the representation of experience; Who are 'the people' in mid-Victorian labour history?; Narrative history and the politics of exclusion; Afterword; Appendix: Evidence of witnesses in the cases of William Pearce and James Bristol; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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