Rebellious Families: Household Strategies and Collective Action in the 19th and 20th Centuries

Published by Berghahn Books 2002

Rebellious Families

Household Strategies and Collective Action in the 19th and 20th Centuries

Edited by: Jan Kok

Volume 3 in the series International Studies in Social History

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781782389811

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About this book

Why do people rebel? This is one of the most important questions historians and social scientists have been grappling with over the years. It is a question to which no satisfactory answer has been found, despite more than a century of research. However, in most cases the research has focused on what people do if they rebel but hardly ever, why they rebel.

The essays in this volume offer an alternative perspective, based on the question at what point families decided to add collective action to their repertoires of survival strategies, In this way this volume opens up a promising new field of historical research: the intersection of labour and family history. The authors offer fascinating case studies in several countries spanning over four continents during the last two centuries. In an extensive introduction the relevant literature on households and collective action is discussed, and the volume is rounded off by a conclusion that provides methodological and theoretical suggestions for the further exploration of this new field in social history.

Author / Editor information

Jan Kok received his doctorate from the Free University of Amsterdam where he also taught history before moving to the International Institute of Social History where he combined studies in historical demography with work on a large database, the Historical Sample of the Netherlands. Since 1999 he has also been research director of the program "Household and Labour" of the N.W. Posthumus Institute.

Reviews

“... opens up a promising new field of historical research: the intersection of labor and family history. The authors provide insightful case studies in several countries ... [They] offer a wealth of new perspectives and disclose a number of aspects neglected by social historians ... A worthwhile and welcome book.”
· International Academy for Marital Spirituality Review

"The book makes a valuable contribution to labor history by broadening the range of factors – family structure, community solidarity, and gender – that researchers need to consider when accounting for collective action. It will benefit university students as well as professional historians." · History: Review of New Books

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
List of Tables, Figures and Maps Publicly Available Download PDF	vi
Preface Jan Kok Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
1. Introduction Marcel van der Linden Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. Early British Labour Movements in Relation to Family Needs Eileen Janes Yeo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	24
3. Weaving Survival in the Tapestry of Village Life. Strategies and Status in the Silesian Weaver Revolt of 1844 Christina von Hodenberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
4. The Case of Clarinna Stringer: Strategic Options and the Household Economy in Late Nineteenth-Century Australia Bruce Scates Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
5. Family and Unionisation in the Bricklaying Trade in Turn-of-the-Century Madrid Justin Byrne Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
6. ‘Who Will Look after the Kiddies?’ Households and Collective Action during the Dublin Lockout, 1913 Theresa Moriarty Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	110
7. Family Ties and Labour Activism among Silk Workers in Northeastern Pennsylvania, U.S.A., 1900–1920 Bonnie Stepenoff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
8. The Trade Union as Survival Strategy. The Case of Amsterdam Construction Workers in the First Quarter of the Twentieth Century Henk Wals Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	140
9. High-Cost Activism and the Worker Household: Interests, Commitment, and the Costs of Revolutionary Activism in a Philippine Plantation Region Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	166
10. Retreat from Collective Protest: Household, Gender, Work and Popular Opposition in Stalinist Hungary Mark Pittaway Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
11. Conclusion Marcel van der Linden Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	230
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	245

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 256
Keywords: History (General); History: 18th/19th Century; History: 20th Century to Present; Sociology

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Published: December 1, 2002
ISBN: 9781782389811