Colliers Across the Sea: A Comparative Study of Class Formation in Scotland and the American Midwest, 1830-1924 - Couverture souple

Laslett, John H. M.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0252068270 ISBN 13 : 9780252068270

Editeur : University of Illinois Press, 2000

Synopsis

This masterful study charts the extensive common ground and telling differences between two widely separated coal-mining communities: Lanarkshire, in the Clyde Valley of southwest Scotland, and the northern Illinois coalfield that became a prime destination for skilled Scottish migrant miners in the mid-nineteenth century. Challenging the prevailing exceptionalist paradigm of labor history, John Laslett examines the social, economic, and political context of each of these communities in generous detail. He traces the progressive heightening of class consciousness as the coal industry evolved from skilled hand labor to an increasingly mechanized extraction process and the escalating hostility between miners and mineowners as their interests split along class lines. Examining the rise of militant industrial unionism in both areas, Laslett provides a sophisticated explanation of the American and Scottish miners' divergent approaches to collectivist solutions. Based on a profound knowledge of both communities, "Colliers across the Sea" tells a compelling story of industrial transformation's human costs, of conflict and greed, and of democratic aspirations and community.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Illinois Press
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0252068270
• ISBN 13: 9780252068270
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 336
• Éditeur: Brody David, Kessler-Harris Alice, Montgomery David, Wilentz Sean
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible