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Class and Other Identities

Gender, Religion, and Ethnicity in the Writing of European Labour History
International Studies in Social History, Band 2 1. Aufl.

von: Lex Heerma van Voss, Marcel van der Linden
37,99 €
Verlag:	Berghahn Books
Format:	PDF
Veröffentl.:	01.06.2002
ISBN/EAN:	9781785330575
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	256

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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.

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Acknowledgements
 Chapter 1. Introduction Marcel van der Linden and Lex Heerma van Voss
 Issues: Chapter 2. New Trends in Labour Movement Historiography: A Perspective Jürgen Kocka
 Chapter 3. Class and Labour History Mike Savage
 Chapter 4. Gender in Labour and Working-Class History Eileen Yeo
 Chapter 5. Ethnicity and Labour History: With Special Reference Irish Migration John Belchem
 Chapter 6. The Role of Religion in Social and Labour History Patrick Pasture
 Chapter 7. Two Labour Histories or One? Alice Kessler-Harris
 Chapter 8. Paradigm Lost? The Futures of Labour History Janaki Nair
 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 Select and Annotated Bibliography, 1990–2000
 Notes on Contributors Index

Autorenportrait

Marcel van der Linden is a Fellow of the International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam. He is also Professor of the History of Social Movements at the University of Amsterdam and the editor of the International Journal of Social History.