Unemployment and protest: new perspectives on two centuries of contention

The book provides fascinating insights into a phenomenon which has often beenportrayed as marginal or non-existent: the protest of the unemployed. Covering a period of nearly two hundred years and events on different continents, theessays describe a wide range of individual or collective protest activities by those who were out of work. INDICE: 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; PartII. Movements of the Unemployed in Nineteenth-Century Britain; 3: Margrit Schulte Beerbühl: 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 Lovefor 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; PartV. 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: Cybèle 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

• ISBN: 978-0-19-959573-0
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 448
• Fecha Publicación: 13/01/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés