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Author Silverman, Marilyn, 1945-2019

Title An Irish working class : explorations in political economy and hegemony, 1800-1950 / Marilyn Silverman
Published Toronto ; Buffaloo : University of Toronto Press, ©2001

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 566 pages) : illustrations
Series Anthropological horizons ; 19
Anthropological horizons ; 19.
Contents Encountering Labour in Field, Archives, and Theory -- Political Economy, Class, and Locality -- Relations of Class and Thomastown's 'Lower Orders' in 1800 -- Labouring Experience in the Nineteenth Century -- Realizing the Working Class: Political Economy and Culture -- Political Domains and Working Combinations after 1815 -- The Political Domain: Labour as Device, Resource, and Project -- Custom and Respectability: The Petty Sessions -- Privatizing the River; Politicizing Labouring Fishers -- At the Turn of the Twentieth Century, 1885-1901 -- Political Sentiment and the Inland Fisheries -- Social Organization and the Politics of Labour -- Metissage and Hegemony, 1901-50 -- The Organizational Impetus: Class and Nationalism before the War, 1906-14 -- From Class to Nation: National Chronology and Local Experience, 1914-23 -- From Nation to Class in the New State: Replicating Capital and Labour, 1920-6 -- Labouring Viewpoints and Lives: The Metissage of Experience and Identities, 1914-30 -- The Uneven Economy and the Moral Economy, 1926-50 -- The Quality of Charity, Values, and Entitlements, 1908-50 -- Redundancy and Status-Class: Purveying Values through Recreation and Education, 1929-50 -- 'And the Church Preached Its View' -- 'We Had a Live Union Then' -- 'Much Wants More': Framing the Politics of Labour -- Inside the Frame: The Politics of Mediation -- Organizing Labour in the 1940s: The Politics of Combination -- Reproducing the Political Regime and Regimen, 1940-50 -- Conclusions: Political Economy and Culture, 1800-1950
Summary In An Irish Working Class, Marilyn Silverman explores the dynamics of capitalism, colonialism, and state formation through an examination of the political economy and culture of those who contributed their labour
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 539-550) and index
Notes English
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Subject Working class -- Ireland -- Thomastown (Kilkenny) -- History -- 19th century
Working class -- Ireland -- Thomastown (Kilkenny) -- History -- 20th century
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Working class
Ieren.
Arbeidersklasse.
Métissage.
Hégémonie (Politique internationale)
Travailleur.
Histoire.
20e siècle.
19e siècle.
Classe ouvrière.
Ireland -- Thomastown (Kilkenny)
Thomastown (Kilkenny, Irelande)
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2002265610
ISBN 9781442670792
1442670797
1282014420
9781282014428
9786612014420
6612014423