‘[The Chartists] is lucid, well crafted, conversant with a mass of literature and highly accessible. It is in short a real achievement…’ Professor David Mc Nally, Department of Political Science, York University, Toronto
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.
The Chartists 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.
Tabella dei contenuti
Introduction1. The 1830s bourgeois power and the working Class
2. The Making of the Charter
3. The Mass Strike of 1842
4. Downturn 1842–47
5. 1848
6. Anatomy of the Movement
7. State Power
8. Conclusion
Appendix 1 Marx and Engels and Chartism
Appendix 2 Chartism and the Historians
Appendix 3 Brief Biographies
Notes
Index
Circa l’autore
John Charlton 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.Altri ebook dello stesso autore / Editore
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