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1 online resource (542 pages). |
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Historical Materialism Book Series
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Historical materialism book series.
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| Contents |
Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part 1. Class Struggle before the Consolidation of Class; Introduction to Part 1; Chapter 1. Discordant Music: Charivaris and Whitecapping in Nineteenth-Century North America; Chapter 2. Popular Radicalism and the Theatrics of Rebellion: The Hybrid Discourse of Dissent in Upper Canada in the 1830s; Part 2. Workers's Cultures, Struggles, and Mobilisations in the Age of Capitalist Consolidation, 1860-1920; Introduction to Part 2; Chapter 3. In Street and Field and Hall: The Culture of Hamilton Workingmen, 1860-1914. |
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Chapter 4. The Bonds of Unity: The Knights of Labor in Ontario, 1880-1900 (Kealey and Palmer)Chapter 5. Class, Conception, and Conflict: The Thrust for Efficiency, Managerial Views of Labour, and the Working Class Rebellion, 1903-22; Part 3. Class Struggle in the Aftermath of the Post-War Settlement; Introduction to Part 3; Chapter 6. Wildcat Workers in the 1960s: The Unruly Face of Class Struggle; Chapter 7. British Columbia's Solidarity: Reformism and the Fight against the Right. |
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Part 4. Remapping the Landscape of Class Formation: Comparisons and Conjunctures in Labour History's Telescoped Longue DuréeIntroduction to Part 4; Chapter 8. Social Formation and Class Formation in North America, 1800-1900; Chapter 9. 'Cracking the Stone': The Long History of Capitalist Crisis and Toronto's Dispossessed, 1830-1930; Chapter 10. What's Law Got To Do With It? Historical Considerations on Class Struggle, Boundaries of Constraint, and Capitalist Authority; References; Index. |
| Summary |
The pieces collected in the first volume of Marxism and Historical Practice: Interpretive Essays on Class Formation and Class Struggle, offer a rich, empirically grounded survey of North American social struggles and a sustained reflection on the more general questions of historical transformation. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Working class -- Canada -- History.
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Working class. |
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Canada. |
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History. |
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Labor -- Canada -- History.
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Labor. |
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Labor movement -- Canada -- History.
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Labor movement. |
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Social conflict -- Canada -- History.
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Social conflict. |
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Social conflict -- United States -- History.
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United States. |
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Communism -- Canada -- History.
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Communism. |
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Communism -- United States -- History.
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Marxian historiography.
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Marxian historiography. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Palmer, Bryan D. Marxism and Historical Practice : Interpretive Essays on Class Formation and Class Struggle. Volume I. Leiden : BRILL, ©2015 9789004243859 |
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9789004243866 |
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9004243860 |
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