Author: Chitra Joshi
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Working class
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
In the Indian context.
Labour History and the Question of Culture
Author: Chitra Joshi
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Working class
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
In the Indian context.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Working class
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
In the Indian context.
Gendering Labor History
Author: Alice Kessler-Harris
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252073932
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
The role of gender in the history of the working class world
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252073932
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
The role of gender in the history of the working class world
Class, Culture and Community
Author: Anne Baldwin
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443842850
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
In recent years, historians have debated fervently on the reason for the decline of British Labour History as an academic discipline. Most certainly the challenge of Thatcherism to the working classes and trade unions in the 1980s, and the fragmentation of Labour history into gender studies, industrial studies and women’s history, have contributed to its apparent decline. Post-modernists’ challenges to the concept of class, culture and community have done their damage. As a result “Labour history”, in its broad-school sense, has been taught less and less in British universities. Yet it survives and there are grounds for believing that it will revive. This collection of chapters arose from a conference held at the University of Huddersfield in November 2010, held under the auspices of the Society for the Study of Labour History, where nineteen papers were presented. Ten of this disparate array of papers form the basis of this collection. The theme of community and localised struggle form the first section, ranging as it does from the newspapers’ representation of Yorkshire miners to brass bands and the development of separate culture. The second section deals with the more traditional trade unionism and varieties of industrial struggle. The third section focuses upon the political aspects of working-class activity, drawing upon the role of women, and Labour policy on steel nationalisation and defence. The fourth deals with radicalism, ranging from the failure of Chartism, the policy of working-class organisations to emigration, and the failure of the “soft” section of the British left in the 1920s and 1930s. There is no all-embracing concept here for what is a varied collection of chapters. However, what can be said is that British Labour history continues to provide new areas for research. Indeed, its death as an academic discipline has been greatly exaggerated. This collection of book chapters represents the current revival in Labour history which has emerged in a form that brings together community and culture alongside class and political representation to explore the breadth and depth of working-class identity.
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443842850
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
In recent years, historians have debated fervently on the reason for the decline of British Labour History as an academic discipline. Most certainly the challenge of Thatcherism to the working classes and trade unions in the 1980s, and the fragmentation of Labour history into gender studies, industrial studies and women’s history, have contributed to its apparent decline. Post-modernists’ challenges to the concept of class, culture and community have done their damage. As a result “Labour history”, in its broad-school sense, has been taught less and less in British universities. Yet it survives and there are grounds for believing that it will revive. This collection of chapters arose from a conference held at the University of Huddersfield in November 2010, held under the auspices of the Society for the Study of Labour History, where nineteen papers were presented. Ten of this disparate array of papers form the basis of this collection. The theme of community and localised struggle form the first section, ranging as it does from the newspapers’ representation of Yorkshire miners to brass bands and the development of separate culture. The second section deals with the more traditional trade unionism and varieties of industrial struggle. The third section focuses upon the political aspects of working-class activity, drawing upon the role of women, and Labour policy on steel nationalisation and defence. The fourth deals with radicalism, ranging from the failure of Chartism, the policy of working-class organisations to emigration, and the failure of the “soft” section of the British left in the 1920s and 1930s. There is no all-embracing concept here for what is a varied collection of chapters. However, what can be said is that British Labour history continues to provide new areas for research. Indeed, its death as an academic discipline has been greatly exaggerated. This collection of book chapters represents the current revival in Labour history which has emerged in a form that brings together community and culture alongside class and political representation to explore the breadth and depth of working-class identity.
Working-class Culture
Author: John Clarke
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Culture
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Culture
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Union-free America
Author: Lawrence Richards
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252032713
Category : Labor movement
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
A stimulating study of how antiunionism has shaped the hearts and minds of American workers
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252032713
Category : Labor movement
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
A stimulating study of how antiunionism has shaped the hearts and minds of American workers
Labour History and the Question of Culture
Author: Chitra Joshi
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Working class
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
In the Indian context.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Working class
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
In the Indian context.
Histories of Labour
Author: Joan Allen
Publisher: Merlin Press
ISBN: 9780850366877
Category : Globalization
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
These specially commissioned essays by labor historians of international repute provide a complete survey of the global trajectory of labor history. Authoritative and well-researched, these essays consider the early labor history traditions as well as the new conceptions of class, gender, ethnicity, culture, community, and power. The contributors analyze key debates, question dominant paradigms, acknowledge minority critiques, and consider future directions. This book will be of interest to historians of working-class political parties and organizations, to students of trade unions and industrial conflict, and to social scientists interested in social and political protest.
Publisher: Merlin Press
ISBN: 9780850366877
Category : Globalization
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
These specially commissioned essays by labor historians of international repute provide a complete survey of the global trajectory of labor history. Authoritative and well-researched, these essays consider the early labor history traditions as well as the new conceptions of class, gender, ethnicity, culture, community, and power. The contributors analyze key debates, question dominant paradigms, acknowledge minority critiques, and consider future directions. This book will be of interest to historians of working-class political parties and organizations, to students of trade unions and industrial conflict, and to social scientists interested in social and political protest.
Labor in Culture, Or, Worker of the World(s)
Author: Peter Hitchcock
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319453998
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
This book is a cultural critique of labor and globalization that considers whether one can represent the other. The cultural representation of labor is a challenge in how globalization is understood. Workers may be everywhere in the world but cultural correlatives are problematic. By elaborating cultural theory and practice this book examines why this might be so. If globalization unites workers via production and capital flows, it often writes over traditional or progressive forms of unity. Worlds of work have expanded in the last half century, yet labor has receded within cultural discourse. By considering critical and historical concepts in the workers’ inquiry, the subject, and value, and provocative projects in cultural representation itself, this study expands our lexicon of labor to understand more fully what “workers of the world” means under globalization. As such the book offers broad appeal to students and teachers of Global and Cultural Studies and will interest all those who take seriously how the worker is articulated at a global scale.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319453998
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
This book is a cultural critique of labor and globalization that considers whether one can represent the other. The cultural representation of labor is a challenge in how globalization is understood. Workers may be everywhere in the world but cultural correlatives are problematic. By elaborating cultural theory and practice this book examines why this might be so. If globalization unites workers via production and capital flows, it often writes over traditional or progressive forms of unity. Worlds of work have expanded in the last half century, yet labor has receded within cultural discourse. By considering critical and historical concepts in the workers’ inquiry, the subject, and value, and provocative projects in cultural representation itself, this study expands our lexicon of labor to understand more fully what “workers of the world” means under globalization. As such the book offers broad appeal to students and teachers of Global and Cultural Studies and will interest all those who take seriously how the worker is articulated at a global scale.
Workers of the World
Author: Marcel van der Linden
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047442849
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
The studies offered in this volume integrate the history of wage labor, of slavery, and of indentured labor. They contribute to a Global Labor History freed from Eurocentrism and methodological nationalism.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047442849
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
The studies offered in this volume integrate the history of wage labor, of slavery, and of indentured labor. They contribute to a Global Labor History freed from Eurocentrism and methodological nationalism.
A Cultural History of Work in the Age of Empire
Author: Victoria E. Thompson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 135007831X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
Winner of the 2020 PROSE Award for Multivolume Reference/Humanities The period 1800–1920 was one in which work processes were dramatically transformed by mechanization, factory system, the abolition of the guilds, the integration of national markets and expansion into overseas colonies. While some continued to work in trades that were similar to those of their parents and grandparents, increasing numbers of workers found their workplace and work processes changed, often in ways that were beyond their control. Workers employed a variety of means to protest these changes, from machine-breaking to strikes to migration. This period saw the rise of the labor union and the working-class political party. It was also a time during which ideas about work changed dramatically. Work came to be seen as a source of pride, progress and even liberation, and workers garnered increased interest from writers and artists. This volume explores the multi-faceted experience of workers during the Age of Empire. A Cultural History of Work in the Age of Empire presents an overview of the period with essays on economies, representations of work, workplaces, work cultures, technology, mobility, society, politics and leisure.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 135007831X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
Winner of the 2020 PROSE Award for Multivolume Reference/Humanities The period 1800–1920 was one in which work processes were dramatically transformed by mechanization, factory system, the abolition of the guilds, the integration of national markets and expansion into overseas colonies. While some continued to work in trades that were similar to those of their parents and grandparents, increasing numbers of workers found their workplace and work processes changed, often in ways that were beyond their control. Workers employed a variety of means to protest these changes, from machine-breaking to strikes to migration. This period saw the rise of the labor union and the working-class political party. It was also a time during which ideas about work changed dramatically. Work came to be seen as a source of pride, progress and even liberation, and workers garnered increased interest from writers and artists. This volume explores the multi-faceted experience of workers during the Age of Empire. A Cultural History of Work in the Age of Empire presents an overview of the period with essays on economies, representations of work, workplaces, work cultures, technology, mobility, society, politics and leisure.