Industrial Nation : : Work, Culture and Society in Scotland, 1800 - present / / William Knox.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Knox, William,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©1999
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (368 p.)

This is a social and cultural history of Scotland's industrial rise and relative decline, concerned above all with the leaders and workers (industrial, political, manufacturing, mining and engineering, as well as religious, union, educational and moral) who produced the first and suffered in the second. Political, social and economic events, movements and trends are welded together in a well-ordered and vivid narrative. It assumes almost no prior knowledge, and introduces the reader gently to the central debates about the nature and course of modern Scottish History. The style is clear and spare - with frequent dry, witty asides; it will be ideal for the student, but will equally appeal to the general reader interested in modern Scottish history. It is illustrated with maps, photographs and drawings, with guides to further reading and a full index.Key FeaturesThe first systematic and economic history of modern ScotlandA vivid chronological narrative accountGenerously illustrated with contemporary illustrations

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- PART 1: SOCIAL CHANGE AND POLITICAL RADICALISM, 1800-1850 -- 1. Interpretations -- 2. The Social Consequences of Industrial and Urban Growth, 1800-1850 -- 3. 'Rough and Respectable': The Culture of the Scottish Working Classes, 1800-1850 -- 4. Technological Change and Workplace Struggles, 1800-1850 -- 5. Class Struggle and the Growth of Trade Unions in Scocland, 1800-1850 -- 6. Nation v. Class: Radical Struggles in Scocland, 1800-1850 -- PART II: MID-VICTORIAN SCOTLAND AND THE POLITICS OF CONSENSUS, 1850-1880 -- 7. Interpretations -- 8. Heavy Industry and Social Change, 1850-1880 -- 9. Respectability and the Scottish Working Classes, 1850-1880 -- 10. Skill and Managerial Authority, 1850-1880 -- 11. Trade Unionism in Scotland, 1850-1880: A New Model? -- 12. A Mid-Victorian Political Consensus? Labour Politics in Scotland, 1850-1880 -- PART III: THE CHALLENGE OF LABOUR, 1880-1914 -- 13. Interpretations -- 14. Relative Economic Decline and the Problem of Poverty, 1880-1914 -- 15. Drink, Football and Sectarianism: Working-Class Culture in Scotland, 1880-1914 -- 16. Skill under Pressure: Changes in the Workplace, 1880-1914 -- 17. Trade Unionism on the March, 1880-1914 -- 18. The Challenge of Socialism, 1880-1914 -- PART IV: WAR, DEPRESSION AND THE REMAKING OF LABOUR IN SCOTLAND, 1914-1945 -- 19. Interpretations -- 20. 'Starving in the Midst of Plenty': Economic Depression and the Social Impact of Mass Unemployment, 1914-1945 -- 21. Billies and Dans in the Jazz Age: Working-Class Culture and the Labour Movement in Scotland, 1914-1945 -- 22. Technological Change and the Skilled Worker, 1914-1945 -- 23. Trade Unionism in a Cold Climate, 1914-1945 -- 24. The Remaking of the Political Culture of the Scottish Working Class, 1914-1945 -- PART V: THE COLLAPSE OF THE CRAFT CULTURE AND THE RISE OF NEW LABOUR IN SCOTLAND, 1945-1990s -- 25. Interpretations -- 26. 'From Ships to Chips': Economic and Social Change in Scotland, 1945-1990s -- 27. The Affluent Worker? Working-Class Culture, 1945-1990s -- 28. The End of Skill? Work and Workplace Relations in Scotland, 1945-1990s -- 29. The Demise of Craft Unionism and the Rise of White-Collar Unions in Scotland, 1945-1990s -- 30. Labour and Nationalism: Working-Class Politics in Scotland, 1945-1990s -- Select Bibliography -- Notes -- Index