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Author:   Matthias Reiss (Lecturer in History, University of Exeter) ,  Matt Perry (Reader in Labour History, University of Newcastle)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.90cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 22.20cm
Weight:   0.674kg
ISBN:  

9780199595730

ISBN 10:   0199595739
Pages:   448
Publication Date:   13 January 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   No Longer Our Product
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Part I. Introduction 1: Matt Perry and Matthias Reiss: Beyond Marienthal: Understanding Movements of the Unemployed 2: Bert Klandermans: Mobilizing the Unemployed: The Social Psychology of Movement Participation Part II. Movements of the Unemployed in Nineteenth-Century Britain 3: Margrit Schulte Beerbuhl: The March of the Blanketeers: Tragic Failure or Pioneer of Unemployed Protest? 4: Matthias Reiss: From Poor Relief to Politics: The Protest of the British Unemployed in the 1870s and 1880s Part III. The Golden Age of Unemployed Movements: The Inter-War Years 5: Jeannette Gabriel: 'Natural Love for a Good Thing': The Struggle of the Unemployed Workers' Movement for a Government Jobs Programme, 1931-42 6: Alex M. Zukas: Explaining Unemployed Protest in the Ruhr at the End of the Weimar Republic 7: Philip H. Slaby: Violating the 'Rules of Hospitality': The Protests of Jobless Immigrants in Depression-Era France 8: David De Vries and Shani Bar-On: Politicization of Unemployment in British-Ruled Palestine Part IV. Beyond Collective Street Protest 9: Michael Seidman: Protesting Individuals: The French Unemployed in the 1930s 10: Stephanie Ward: 'The Workers are in the Mood to Fight the Act': Protest Against the Means Test, 1931-5 11: Malcolm Chase: Unemployment without Protest: the Ironstone Mining Communities of East Cleveland in the Inter-War Period Part V. Self-Representations of Movements of the Unemployed 12: Matt Perry: Breaking the Silence: Rationale, Protest, and Identity in the Provincial Press of the Unemployed in France, 1931-9 13: Antoine Capet: From Protest to Warning: Representations of the Unemployed in Victor Gollancz's Left Book Club, 1937-45 14: Ingrid Hayes: Radio Lorraine Coeur d'Acier, Longwy-France, 1979-80: Reacting to the Threat of Unemployment Part VI. Recent Movements of the Unemployed 15: Cybele Locke: Fractious Factions: The Organized Unemployed and the Labour Movement in New Zealand, 1978-90 16: Deborah Vietor-Englander: How Far Beyond Marienthal? Unemployed Protest in Germany in the Internet Era Part VII. Conclusion 17: Didie Chabanet and Jean Faniel: The Moblization of the Unemployed: A Recurrent but Relatively Invisible Phenomenon

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a well-researched and well-written collection of essays which should reinvigorate the debate about the historical experience of unemployment Stephen Catterall, History

This book clearly demonstrates the vast complexity of the phenomenon of movements by the unemployed ... It is a welcome addition to the historical labour literature. * William A Pelz, European History Quarterly * This is an excellent collection of essays which provides fresh insights into its subject. * Chris Wrigley, Labour History Review * a well-researched and well-written collection of essays which should reinvigorate the debate about the historical experience of unemployment * Stephen Catterall, History *

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