A comparative study of workers, organized labour and society in 18th- and 19th-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. Although Neville Kirk recognizes various national differences between Britain and the US - the chronology and character of industrialization, the relative importance of agriculture, contrasting political and social structure and values - he rebuts the norm of Maerican "exceptionalism". The book identifies common international influences and strong mutual connections between the two states as factors forcing the workers in both countries to follow similar paths.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Höhe: 234 mm
Breite: 156 mm
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978-0-7185-1342-9 (9780718513429)
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Senior Lecturer in Economic and Social History, Metropolitan University of Manchester
Part 1 The process of capitalist transformation and the roots of popular 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 and conflict; 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 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 USA and Britain.
