Protest, Politics and Work in Rural England, 1700-1850

Rural workers in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century England were not passive victims in the face of rapid social change. Carl J. Griffin shows that they deployed an extensive range of resistances to defend their livelihoods and communities. Locating protest in the wider contexts of work, poverty and landscape change, this new text offers the first critical overview of this growing area of study.>

Sommario

List of Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction: Understanding Rural Protest
1. Work, Worklessness and the Poor Law
2. Rural Workers, Custom and the State
3. Land and Environmental Change
4. Community, Custom and Religion: Unsettling the Everyday
5. Protest Practice
6. Rural Rebellion
7. Rural Popular Politics
Conclusion
Notes
Further Reading
Index.

Info autore

Carl J. Griffin is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Sussex, UK.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Carl Griffin, Carl J. Griffin
• Editore: Macmillan
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 28.11.2013
• EAN: 9780230299689
• ISBN: 978-0-230-29968-9
• Pagine: 248
• Serie: Social History in Perspective; Social History in Perspective
• Categorie: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Geoscienze > Geografia; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Storia dei paesi e delle regioni; B, Social Sciences, History of Britain and Ireland, Great Britain—History, England;law;poverty;resistance;social change