Expanding Class: Power and Everyday Politics in the Industrial Communities of North Brabant, 1850-1950 - Couverture souple

Kalb, Don

 
9780822320227: Expanding Class: Power and Everyday Politics in the Industrial Communities of North Brabant, 1850-1950
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0822320223 ISBN 13 : 9780822320227
Editeur : Duke University Press, 1998

Synopsis

Expanding Class is the study and story of industrial class relations in North Brabant, a Catholic province of The Netherlands, over a hundred-year period. In examining the lives of workers in one of Europe's more idiosyncratic industrial regions, Don Kalb affirms the utility of class analysis while responding to the cultural critics who have encouraged a movement away from this focus in labor history. In so doing, Expanding Class advances an interdisciplinary historical anthropology of working-class formation. Basing his analysis on oral as well as archival sources, Kalb reveals a dynamic relationship between capitalist industrialization, locality, and cultural class identities.
Expanding Class compares Brabant's quaint central shoemaking district to its electrical boomtown Eindhoven, home of the enormous Philips Corporation. It introduces the concept of "flexible familism," a sociological phenomenon in which family daughters were employed to facilitate a cheap and ample labor force. Industrialists manipulated and fostered flexible familism to ensure the discipline and loyalty of the working-class community. By using the industrial Netherlands as a paradigm, Kalb reveals new and productive ways to examine class construction and the development of labor history in other countries over the past thirty years, steering a path between the two schools of thought--cultural and economic--that have dominated labor history discussions in recent years.

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À propos de l?auteur

Don Kalb is Assistant Professor of Social Sciences at the University of Utrecht.

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Éditeur
Duke University Press
Date d'édition
1998
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0822320223
ISBN 13 
9780822320227
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
360
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780822320128: Expanding Class: Power and Everyday Politics in Industrial Communities, the Netherlands, 1850-1950

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ISBN 10 :  0822320126 ISBN 13 :  9780822320128
Editeur : Duke University Press, 1998
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