Artisans and Politics in Early Nineteenth-Century London (Routledge Revivals): John Gast and His Times

ISBN-13: 9780415643702 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 418 str.

Iorwerth Prothero

Opis

First published in 1979, this book was the first, full-length study of working-class movements in London between 1800 and the beginnings of Chartism in the later 1830s. The leaders and rank and file in these movements were almost invariably artisans, and this book examines the position of the skilled artisan in politics. Starting from the social ideals, outlook and the experience of the London artisan, Dr Prothero describes trade union, political, co-operative, educational and intellectual movements in the first forty years of the century. Setting a scene of alternating growth and contraction in trade, successive hostile governments and the increasing articulation of working-class consciousness the author shows that artisans could be no less militant, radical or anti-capitalist than other groups of working class men.

Spis treści

Introduction;  Part I: Artisans in War and Peace  1. The Man from Deptford  2. The London Artisan  3. The Apprenticeship Campaign  4. The End of the Wars  Part II: Post-War Radical Politics  5. Gast the Radical  6. From Palace Yard to Cato Street  7. Queen Caroline  Part III: Artisans in Boom and Depression  8. The Thames Shipwrights’ Provident Union  9. The Combination Laws  10. The Trades’ Newspaper and Francis Place  11. The Trades in Depression  12. The Benefit Societies’ Campaign  13. Co-operation  Part IV: The Reform Crisis to Chartism  14. Reform  15. Trade Unionism and Radicalism  16. The Working Men’s Association  17. Into Chartism;  Conclusion;  Appendix: The Largest Trades;  Notes;  Bibliographical Note;  Index

O autorze

Iorwerth Prothero