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.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Für höhere Schule und Studium
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Höhe: 234 mm
Breite: 156 mm
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978-0-7185-1480-8 (9780718514808)
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Senior Lecturer in Economic and Social History, Metropolitan University of Manchester
Capitalist development and the transformation of labour from the 1870s to the 1920s; challenge of 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.
