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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Host, John, 1946-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labour Party (Great Britain)--History.

Labour Party (Great Britain).

Working class--Great Britain--Political activity--History--19th century.

Working class.

Labor movement--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Labor movement.

Representative government and representation--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Representative government and representation.

Chartism--History.

Chartism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p.256-272) and index.

ISBN:

1-134-66321-8

1-134-66322-6

1-138-00719-6

0-203-06796-7

1-280-33049-X

9780203067963

OCLC:

560516288