UID:
almafu_9961448821702883
Format:
1 online resource (256 pages).
ISBN:
1-57181-301-2
,
1-57181-787-5
,
1-78533-057-8
Series Statement:
International Studies in Social History
Content:
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.
Note:
Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction 1 -- Marcel van der Linden and Lex Heerma van Voss -- Issues -- 2. New Trends in Labour Movement Historiography: A German 42 -- Perspective -- Jurgen Kocka -- 3. Class and Labour History 55 -- Mike Savage -- 4. Gender in Labour and Working-Class History 73 -- Eileen Yeo -- 5. Ethnicity and Labour History: With Special Reference to 88 -- Irish Migration -- John Belchem -- 6. The Role of Religion in Social and Labour History 101 -- Patrick Pasture -- 7. Two Labour Histories or One? 133 -- Alice Kessler-Harris -- 8. Paradigm Lost? The Futures of Labour History 150 -- Janaki Nair -- References -- Main West European Labour History Periodicals, 1911-2000 162 -- Bibliographical Essays on the Development of West European 166 -- Labour History, 1965-2000 -- Bibliographies of West European Labour Historiography, 178 -- 1965-2000 -- Biographical Dictionaries 183 -- Multiple-Country Surveys of West European Labour History 186 -- A Brief Guide to Relevant Websites 191 -- Select and Annotated Bibliography, 1990-2000 195 -- Notes on Contributors 241 -- Index 243.
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
DOI:
10.1515/9781785330575
