Class, culture and community : new perspectives in nineteenth and twentieth century British labour history / edited by Anne Baldwin ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Baldwin, Anne.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Working class--Great Britain--History.

Working class.

Labor--Great Britain--History.

Labor.

Socialism--Great Britain--History.

Socialism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (244 p.)

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 his...

Contents:

section 1. The culture of communities

section 2. The labour movement, trade unions and organised communities

section 3. Political communication and ideology

section 4. Radicalism and conflict.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4438-4285-0

OCLC:

820123405