Rebellious Families : : Household Strategies and Collective Action in the 19th and 20th Centuries /

Rebellious Families : : Household Strategies and Collective Action in the 19th and 20th Centuries / / ed. by Jan Kok.

Why do people rebel? This is one of the most important questions historians and social scientists have been grappling with over the years. It is a question to which no satisfactory answer has been found, despite more than a century of research. However, in most cases the research has focused on what...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Byrne, Justin,
Hodenberg, Christina von,
Janes Yeo, Eileen,
Kok, Jan,
Linden, Marcel van der,
Moriarty, Theresa,
Pittaway, Mark,
Scates, Bruce,
Stepenoff, Bonnie,
Wals, Henk,
HerausgeberIn:
Kok, Jan,
Place / Publishing House:New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2002]
©2002
Year of Publication:2002
Language:English
Series:International Studies in Social History ; 3
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Tables, Figures and Maps
  • Preface
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Early British Labour Movements in Relation to Family Needs
  • 3. Weaving Survival in the Tapestry of Village Life. Strategies and Status in the Silesian Weaver Revolt of 1844
  • 4. The Case of Clarinna Stringer: Strategic Options and the Household Economy in Late Nineteenth-Century Australia
  • 5. Family and Unionisation in the Bricklaying Trade in Turn-of-the-Century Madrid
  • 6. ‘Who Will Look after the Kiddies?’ Households and Collective Action during the Dublin Lockout, 1913
  • 7. Family Ties and Labour Activism among Silk Workers in Northeastern Pennsylvania, U.S.A., 1900–1920
  • 8. The Trade Union as Survival Strategy. The Case of Amsterdam Construction Workers in the First Quarter of the Twentieth Century
  • 9. High-Cost Activism and the Worker Household: Interests, Commitment, and the Costs of Revolutionary Activism in a Philippine Plantation Region
  • 10. Retreat from Collective Protest: Household, Gender, Work and Popular Opposition in Stalinist Hungary
  • 11. Conclusion
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index

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