The rural war : Captain Swing and the politics of protest
Griffin, Carl JAuthor
Manchester : Manchester University Press,
2012.
The Swing Riots were the most dramatic and widespread rising of the English rural poor. Protestors destroyed machines, demanding higher wages and better poor relief. Swing represented a challenge to the existing ruling order, provoking a bitter and bloody repression. This is a vivid account of a defining moment in British history.
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The Swing Riots were the most dramatic and widespread rising of the English rural poor. Protestors destroyed machines, demanding higher wages and better poor relief. Swing represented a challenge to the existing ruling order, provoking a bitter and bloody repression. This is a vivid account of a defining moment in British history.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.
Swing in context. Rough men, pleasant histories ; Life and labour on and off the parish ; Something before Swing or Swing itself? -- Swing as movement. Movement dynamics and diffusion ; Movement mechanisms -- Chopsticks' politics. The politics of the parish ; Radical participatory politics ; The gender politics of Swing -- Responses to Swing. Suppressing Swing ; Swing and social policy ; Something after Swing?
Swing Riots, England, 1830-1831
Social conflict
Sabotage in the workplace
Agricultural laborers
Business & Economics
Agricultural Economics