Politics and the Irish Working Class, 1830-1945 [electronic resource] /
Lane, Fintan.editor.
Drisceoil, Donal Ó.editor.
This book is the first ever collection of scholarly essays on the history of the Irish working class. It provides a comprehensive introduction to the involvement of Irish workers in political life and movements between 1830 and 1945. Fourteen leading Irish and international historians and political scientists trace the politicization of Irish workers during a period of considerable social and political turmoil. The contributions include both surveys covering the entire period and case studies that provide new perspectives on crucial historical movements and moments. This volume is a milestone in Irish labour and political historiography and an important contribution to the international literature on politics and the working class.
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Cover; Contents; Notes on the Contributors; Introduction; 1 Robert Owen, Co-operation and Ulster in the 1830s; 2 Labour and Politics, 1830-1945: Colonisation and Mental Colonisation; 3 Working Women, Trade Unionism and Politics in Ireland, 1830-1945; 4 Politics, Sectarianism and the Working Class in Nineteenth-Century Belfast; 5 'Brethren in Bondage': Chartists, O'Connellites, Young Irelanders and the 1848 Uprising; 6 Rural Labourers, Social Change and Politics in Late Nineteenth-Century Ireland; 7 Parnellism and Workers: The Experience of Cork and Limerick
8 William Walker, Labour, Sectarianism and the Union, 1894-19129 Interpreting James Connolly, 1916-23; 10 Labour Militancy during the Irish War of Independence; 11 Radical Politics in Interwar Ireland, 1923-39; 12 The Northern Ireland Labour Party, 1924-45; 13 Fianna Fáil and the Working Class, 1926-38; 14 'Whose Emergency Is It?' Wartime Politics and the Irish Working Class, 1939-45; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book is the first ever collection of scholarly essays on the history of the Irish working class. It provides a comprehensive introduction to the involvement of Irish workers in political life and movements between 1830 and 1945. Fourteen leading Irish and international historians and political scientists trace the politicization of Irish workers during a period of considerable social and political turmoil. The contributions include both surveys covering the entire period and case studies that provide new perspectives on crucial historical movements and moments. This volume is a milestone in Irish labour and political historiography and an important contribution to the international literature on politics and the working class.
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