Protest, politics and work in rural England, 1700-1850
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Protest, politics and work in rural England, 1700-1850
（Social history in perspective）
Palgrave Macmillan, 2014
- : hard
- : pbk
Available at 6 libraries
Note
Bibliography: p. 216-222
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
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.
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