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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: International Studies in Social History ; 3Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2002]Copyright date: ©2002Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781571815293
  • 9781782389811
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.85 21
LOC classification:
  • HQ518 .R4 2002
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  • online - DeGruyter
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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
Summary: 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 people do if they rebel but hardly ever, why they rebel. The essays in this volume offer an alternative perspective, based on the question at what point families decided to add collective action to their repertoires of survival strategies, In this way this volume opens up a promising new field of historical research: the intersection of labour and family history. The authors offer fascinating case studies in several countries spanning over four continents during the last two centuries. In an extensive introduction the relevant literature on households and collective action is discussed, and the volume is rounded off by a conclusion that provides methodological and theoretical suggestions for the further exploration of this new field in social history.
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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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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 people do if they rebel but hardly ever, why they rebel. The essays in this volume offer an alternative perspective, based on the question at what point families decided to add collective action to their repertoires of survival strategies, In this way this volume opens up a promising new field of historical research: the intersection of labour and family history. The authors offer fascinating case studies in several countries spanning over four continents during the last two centuries. In an extensive introduction the relevant literature on households and collective action is discussed, and the volume is rounded off by a conclusion that provides methodological and theoretical suggestions for the further exploration of this new field in social history.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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