The Politics of Rural Industrialization

Class, Gender, and Collective Protest in the Saxon Oberlausitz of the Late Nineteenth Century

Bibliographic Data

ID9643584
AuthorsJean H Quataert (corresponding author)
Year1987
Volume20
Issue2
Pages91-124
Publication date1987-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCentral European History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0008-9389 • E-ISSN: 1569-1616
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0008938900012565
OpenAlexW2157068868
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited62

History preserves numerous images of workers' protests. Both contemporaries and later historians, inspired by fear or enthusiasm, have scoured the records of the past for examples of popular rebellion, workplace militancy, or class mobilization. Indeed, a large literature exists that seeks to explain collective behavior by puzzling out the links between class formation and collective protest as well as the relationships between the individual's “objective” class situation and thought and action. But this literature—like the subjects of its inquiry itself—is in transition. It was once assumed that protest had its own iron logic and that “radical” consciousness was the necessary end product of the changing labor process under industrial capitalism; all other behavior was easily dismissed as “false” consciousness

Capitalism · Class (philosophy · Class conflict · Class consciousness · Class formation · Collective action · Enthusiasm · Epistemology · Industrialisation · Mobilization · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Working class · Communism, Protests, Social Movements · European history and politics · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology