Overview

The pieces collected here offer a stimulating, empirically grounded survey of North American collective behaviour, popular mobilizations, and social struggles. What emerges is Palmer's sustained reflection on long-standing interpretive historical problems of class formation, the dynamics of social change, and how popular social movements arise and relate to law, the state, and existing cultural contexts.

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Author:   Bryan Palmer
Publisher:   Haymarket Books
Imprint:   Haymarket Books
Volume:   98
Dimensions:   Width: 15.30cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.726kg
ISBN:  

9781608466887

ISBN 10:   1608466884
Pages:   532
Publication Date:   16 May 2017
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction PART I: CLASS STRUGGLE BEFORE THE CONSOLIDATION OF CLASS 1. Discordant Music: Charivaris and Whitecapping in Nineteenth-Century North America 2. Popular Radicalism and the Theatrics of Rebellion: The Hybrid Discourse of Dissent in Upper Canada in the 1830s PART II: WORKERS’ CULTURES, STRUGGLES, AND MOBILISATIONS IN THE AGE OF CAPITALIST CONSOLIDATION, 1860–1920 3. In Street and Field and Hall: The Culture of Hamilton Workingmen, 1860–1914 4. The Bonds of Unity: The Knights of Labor in Ontario, 1880–1900 5. Class, Conception and Conflict: The Thrust for Efficiency, Managerial Views of Labour, and the Working Class Rebellion, 1903–22 PART III: CLASS STRUGGLE IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE POST-WAR SETTLEMENT 6. Wildcat Workers in the 1960s: The Unruly Face of Class Struggle 7. British Columbia’s Solidarity: Reformism and the Fight Against the Right PART IV: REMAPPING THE LANDSCAPE OF CLASS FORMATION: COMPARISONS AND CONJUNCTURES IN LABOUR HISTORY’S TELESCOPED LONGUE DURÉE 8. Social Formation and Class Formation in North America, 1800–1900 9. ‘Cracking the Stone’: The Long History of Capitalist Crisis and Toronto’s Dispossessed, 1830–1930 10. What’s Law Got to Do with It? Historical Considerations on Class Struggle, Boundaries of Constraint, and Capitalist Authority References Index

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Bryan D. Palmer, Ph.D. (1977), SUNY-Binghamton, is Canada Research Chair in the Department of Canadian Studies, Trent University. His prize-winning monographs, edited collections, and articles on the history of labour and the left, and historiography and theory, have been translated and published in Greek, Korean, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, and other languages. Among his many books are James P. Cannon and the Origins of the American Revolutionary Left, 1890-1928 (UI Press, 2007) and the Brill-published Revolutionary Teamsters: The Minneapolis Truckers' Strikes of 1934 (2013).

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