Class and Other Identities : : Gender, Religion, and Ethnicity in the Writing of European Labour History / / ed. by Marcel van der Linden, Lex Heerma van Voss.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Belchem, John,; Kessler-Harris, Alice,; Kocka, Jürgen,; Linden, Marcel van der,; Nair, Janaki,; Pasture, Patrick,; Savage, Mike,; Voss, Lex Heerma van,; Yeo, Eileen,
• HerausgeberIn: Linden, Marcel van der,; Voss, Lex Heerma van,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2002]; ©2002
• Year of Publication: 2002
• Language: English
• Series: International Studies in Social History ; 2
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS --; CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION --; ISSUES --; CHAPTER 2 NEW TRENDS IN LABOUR MOVEMENT HISTORIOGRAPHY: A GERMAN PERSPECTIVE --; CHAPTER 3 CLASS AND LABOUR HISTORY --; CHAPTER 4 GENDER IN LABOUR AND WORKING-CLASS HISTORY --; CHAPTER 5 ETHNICITY AND LABOUR HISTORY: WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO IRISH MIGRATION --; CHAPTER 6 THE ROLE OF RELIGION IN SOCIAL AND LABOUR HISTORY --; CHAPTER 7 TWO LABOUR HISTORIES OR ONE? --; CHAPTER 8 PARADIGM LOST? THE FUTURES OF LABOUR HISTORY --; REFERENCES --; MAIN WEST EUROPEAN LABOUR HISTORY PERIODICALS, 1911–2000 --; BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAYS ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF WEST EUROPEAN LABOUR HISTORY, 1965–2000 --; BIBLIOGRAPHIES OF WEST EUROPEAN LABOUR HISTORIOGRAPHY, 1965–2000 --; BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARIES --; MULTIPLE-COUNTRY SURVEYS OF WEST EUROPEAN LABOUR HISTORY --; A BRIEF GUIDE TO RELEVANT WEBSITES --; SELECTED AND ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY, 1990–2000 --; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781785330575; 9783110998283
• DOI: 10.1515/9781785330575
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Marcel van der Linden, Lex Heerma van Voss.

With the onset of a more conservative political climate in the 1980s, social and especially labour history saw a decline in the popularity that they had enjoyed throughout the 1960s and 1970s. This led to much debate on its future and function within the historical discipline as a whole. Some critics declared it dead altogether. Others have proposed a change of direction and a more or less exclusive focus on images and texts. The most constructive proposals have suggested that labour history in the past concentrated too much on class and that other identities of working people should be taken into account to a larger extent than they had been previously, such as gender, religion, and ethnicity. Although class as a social category is still as valid as it has been before, the questions now to be asked are to what extent non-class identities shape working people's lives and mentalities and how these are linked with the class system. In this volume some of the leading European historians of labour and the working classes address these questions. Two non-European scholars comment on their findings from an Indian, resp. American, point of view. The volume is rounded off by a most useful bibliography of recent studies in European labour history, class, gender, religion, and ethnicity.