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The Chartists
eBook - The First National Workers Movement, Socialist History of Britain
ISBN/EAN: 9781783711161
Umbreit-Nr.: 7517937
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 120 S.
Format in cm:
Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 20.01.1997
Auflage: 1/1997
E-Book
Format: PDF
DRM: Adobe DRM
- Zusatztext
- <p>'[The Chartists] is lucid, well crafted, conversant with a mass of literature and highly accessible. It is in short a real achievement...' Professor David McNally, Department of Political Science, York University, Toronto</p><p><br></p><p>Chartism was the first national workers' movement, drawing together in activity working men and women throughout Britain. The mass uprisings of 1839, 1842 and 1848 brought many middle-class radicals prominence, but at a local level hundreds of workers also emerged to give the movement a strong, innovative working-class leadership.</p><p><br></p><p><em>The Chartists</em>&#xa0;is the first study to place emphasis on the importance of these mass movements and on the problems of building workers' organisation during the period. John Charlton chronicles the key events and outlines the leading figures, examining many aspects of the movement that are frequently overlooked in introductory texts, from Chartist Christians and Chartist trade unionists to Chartist feminists and the impact of the movement on the thinking of Marx and Engels. Featuring brief biographies and an assessment of recent literature on the subject, this is an original and highly readable history of Chartism.</p>
- Kurztext
- <span>A succinct history of the Chartist movement, the first fully national struggle of working people to improve their working conditions.</span>
- Autorenportrait
- <strong>John Charlton</strong><span> is a lecturer in Politics at the University of Leeds and lectured in History and Politics at Leeds Metropolitan University for 25 years. He is one of Britain's leading experts on the multitude of primary texts on the Chartists.</span>