Industrial nation : work, culture and society in Scotland, 1800-present / W.W. Knox.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Knox, William, 1948-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Industrialization--Scotland--History.

Industrialization.

Working class--Scotland--History.

Working class.

Working class--Political activity--Scotland.

Working class--Political activity.

History.

Scotland.

Scotland--Social conditions.

Social conditions.

Scotland--History--19th century.

Scotland--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

xv, 368 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [1999]

Summary:

This is a history of the people of Scotland during two centuries of industrial rise and decline, economic recovery, and national reawakening. It is concerned above all with the leaders and workers - in industry, mining and engineering, as well as in politics, religion, trade unions and education - who created the great industrial nation of the nineteenth century, and strove to counter its decline in the twentieth. Political, social and economic events, movements and trends are welded together in a vivid narrative.

Contents:

Part I Social Change and Political Radicalism, 1800-1850 29

1. Interpretations 31

2. The Social Consequences of Industrial and Urban Growth, 1800-1850 34

3. 'Rough and Respectable': The Culture of the Scottish Working Classes, 1800-1850 40

4. Technological Change and Workplace Struggles, 1800-1850 47

5. Class Struggle and the Growth of Trade Unions in Scotland, 1800-1850 52

6. Nation v. Class: Radical Struggles in Scotland, 1800-1850 56

Part II Mid-Victorian Scotland and the Politics of Consensus, 1850-1880 79

7. Interpretations 81

8. Heavy Industry and Social Change, 1850-1880 85

9. Respectability and the Scottish Working Classes, 1850-1880 94

10. Skill and Managerial Authority, 1850-1880 104

11. Trade Unionism in Scotland, 1850-1880: A New Model? 114

12. A Mid-Victorian Political Consensus? Labour Politics in Scotland, 1850-1880 122

Part III The Challenge of Labour, 1880-1914 127

13. Interpretations 129

14. Relative Economic Decline and the Problem of Poverty, 1880-1914 132

15. Drink, Football and Sectarianism: Working-Class Culture in Scotland, 1880-1914 137

16. Skill under Pressure: Changes in the Workplace, 1880-1914 145

17. Trade Unionism on the March, 1880-1914 156

18. The Challenge of Socialism, 1880-1914 163

Part IV War, Depression and the Remaking of Labour in Scotland, 1914-1945 185

19. Interpretations 187

20. 'Starving in the Midst of Plenty': Economic Depression and the Social Impact of Mass Unemployment, 1914-1945 189

21. Billies and Dans in the Jazz Age: Working-Class Culture and the Labour Movement in Scotland, 1914-1945 196

22. Technological Change and the Skilled Worker, 1914-1945 203

23. Trade Unionism in a Cold Climate, 1914-1945 216

24. The Remaking of the Political Culture of the Scottish Working Class, 1914-1945 232

Part V The Collapse of the Craft Culture and the Rise of New Labour in Scotland, 1945-1990s 249

25. Interpretations 251

26. 'From Ships to Chips': Economic and Social Change in Scotland, 1945-1990s 254

27. The Affluent Worker? Working-Class Culture, 1945-1990s 265

28. The End of Skill? Work and Workplace Relations in Scotland, 1945-1990s 272

29. The Demise of Craft Unionism and the Rise of White-Collar Unions in Scotland, 1945-1990s 280

30. Labour and Nationalism: Working-Class Politics in Scotland, 1945-1990s 296.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0748610847

0748610855

OCLC:

41834287