Protest, Politics and Work in Rural England, 1700-1850

Protest, Politics and Work in Rural England, 1700-1850

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Summary

Rural workers in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century England were not passive victims in the face of rapid social change. Locating protest in the wider contexts of work, poverty and landscape change, this new text offers the first critical overview of this growing area of study.

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Protest, Politics and Work in Rural England, 1700-1850 by Carl Griffin

Rural workers in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century England were not passive victims in the face of rapid social change. Carl J. Griffin shows that they deployed an extensive range of resistances to defend their livelihoods and communities. Locating protest in the wider contexts of work, poverty and landscape change, this new text offers the first critical overview of this growing area of study.
Carl J. Griffin is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Sussex, UK.
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ISBN 13 9780230299689
ISBN 10 0230299687
Title Protest, Politics and Work in Rural England, 1700-1850
Author Carl Griffin
Series Social History In Perspective
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Year published 2013-11-28
Number of pages 248
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