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Scabs and Traitors Taboo, Violence and Punishment in Labour Disputes in Britain, 1760-1871
By Thomas Linehan
Copyright 2018
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
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In its broadest sense, this book is concerned with the attempt by workers in Britain during the period 1760–1871 to engage in collective action in circumstances of conflict with their employers during a time when the nation and many of its traditional economic structures and customary modes of working were undergoing rapid and unsettling change. More specifically, the book principally focuses on... Read more
Introduction, 1 Blackleg economics, 2 Tabooed persons, 3 Vows and sacred lines, 4 The call to arms, 5 Carnivalesque rituals, 6 Magic rituals and tabooed things, 7 Shaming and degradation rituals, 8 Retribution, Conclusion
Biography
Dr Thomas Linehan is Lecturer in History, Brunel University. He is the co-editor (with John Roberts) of the Routledge Studies in Radical History and Politics book series. His previous publications include Modernism and British Socialism. Palgrave Macmillan (2012), Communism in Britain, 1920–39: From the Cradle to the Grave. Manchester University Press (2007), British Fascism 1918–39: Parties, Ideology and Culture. Manchester University Press (2000), East London for Mosley: The British Union of Fascists in East London and South-West Essex 1933–40. Routledge (1996).
