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The Politics of Identity and Civil Society in Britain and Germany. Miners in the Ruhr and South Wales, 1890-1926.
Leighton James
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Hardback. This study compares the making and remaking of the political identities of the miners' movements in Britain and Germany. Taking the South Wales and Ruhr coalfields as case studies, it focuses on the discourse of the trade unions and political parties in the two regions to reveal how they constructed organisational identities between 1890 and 1926. Series Editor(s): Fielding, Professor Steven; Callaghan, John; Ludlam, Steve. Series: Critical Labour Movement Studies. Num Pages: 240 pages, Tables, black & white|Maps. BIC Classification: JPB; KCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 522.
This study compares the making and remaking of the political identities of the miners’ movements in Britain and Germany. Taking the south Wales and Ruhr coalfields as case studies, it focuses on the public discourse of the trade unions and political parties as it was disseminated in local newspapers, trade union publications, pamphlets and election leaflets. It reveals how the miners’ movements used ideas such as class, religion, the ‘people’ or Volk, socialization and nationalization to construct organizational identities during the turbulent period between 1890 and 1926. These concepts were crucial not only in the formation and self-identity of the ... Read more
This study compares the making and remaking of the political identities of the miners’ movements in Britain and Germany. Taking the south Wales and Ruhr coalfields as case studies, it focuses on the public discourse of the trade unions and political parties as it was disseminated in local newspapers, trade union publications, pamphlets and election leaflets. It reveals how the miners’ movements used ideas such as class, religion, the ‘people’ or Volk, socialization and nationalization to construct organizational identities during the turbulent period between 1890 and 1926. These concepts were crucial not only in the formation and self-identity of the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Series
Critical Labour Movement Studies
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719074974
SKU
V9780719074974
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About Leighton James
Leighton S. James is Post-doctoral Researcher at the University of York -- .
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