| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 259 pages [8] pages of plates) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Front Matter; Title Page; Contents; List of Plates; List of Contributors; Introduction; CHAPTER ONE; 'Your only God is Profit': Irish Class Relations and the 1913 Lockout; CHAPTER TWO; Uniting the Working Class: History, Memory and 1913; CHAPTER THREE; Andrew Patrick Wilson and the Irish Worker, 1912-13; CHAPTER FOUR; 'Real Irish Patriots would Scorn to Recognise the Likes of You': Larkin and Irish-America; CHAPTER FIVE; Workers Show Their Strength: The 1918 Conscription Crisis; Newsboys and the 'Animal Gang' in 1930s Dublin; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN |
|
'The Probem is One Not of Criminal Tendencies, But of Poverty': The NSPCC, John Byrne and the Industrial School System in IrelandCHAPTER EIGHT; Pro-Hitler or Anti-Management?: War on the Industrial Front, Belfast October 1942; CHAPTER NINE; 'The Brightest Couple of Hours': The Factory, Inter-House, Inter-Firm and Pubs Leagues of Ireland, 1922-73; CHAPTER TEN; 'I Never Would Return Again to Plough the Rocks of Bawn': Irishmen in Post-War Britain; CHAPTER ELEVEN ; 'As If You Were Something Under Their Shoe': Class, Gender and Status among Cork Textile Workers, 1930-70; CHAPTER TWELVE |
| Summary |
The study of an independent Irish working class is often neglected in favor of the usual focus on nationalism in politics, culture, and wider society. As highlighted throughout this pioneering book, this neglect has stretched at times to an actual denial of the existence of an Irish working class. The idea that class - rather than ethnicity, religion, or the idea of national identity - could have a role to play in politics and cultural production is an alien one to the mainstream Irish historical debate. The working class has been locked out of Irish history. This ground-breaking book - wri |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
|
Print version record |
| Subject |
Working class -- Ireland -- History -- 20th century
|
|
Industrial relations -- Ireland
|
|
Labor -- Ireland -- History
|
|
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
|
|
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
|
|
Industrial relations
|
|
Labor
|
|
Manners and customs
|
|
Working class
|
| SUBJECT |
Ireland -- Social life and customs -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85068054
|
| Subject |
Ireland
|
| Genre/Form |
History
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| Author |
Convery, David
|
| ISBN |
9780716532217 |
|
0716532212 |
|
