Simon Cordery
Biographic Data
| ID | 1356543 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Simon Cordery |
| GIVEN NAMES | Simon |
| FAMILY NAME | Cordery |
| SIGNATURE | CORDERY S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Iowa State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Aaron W. Marrs. The American Transportation Revolution
Peter A. Hansen, Don L. Hofsommer, Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes, Crossroads of a Continent
Trust Among Strangers
Class is (still) dead. Numerous suspected assassins could be taken into custody: contemporary society, of course, and politicians of every stripe, but also historians who took the so-called linguis
Rock Island Requiem
Reviewed by: Rock Island Requiem: The Collapse of a Mighty Fine Line by Gregory L. Schneider Simon Cordery Gregory L. Schneider. Rock Island Requiem: The Collapse of a Mighty Fine Line. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2013. xx + 380 pp. ISBN 978-0-7006-1918-4, $39.95 (cloth). The story of the long, slow death of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad Company (CRIP) is well known. A staid, highly respected Granger Road falls on hard tim…
Regulated Lives
Mutualism, Friendly Societies, and the Genesis of Railway Trade Unions
‘Mutualism, Friendly Societies, and The Genesis of Railway Trade Unions’ proposes a revised view of the origins of trade unions to account for their friendly society-like inception. Taking as its subject the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants (ASRS), it demonstrates how railway company friendly societies established a model which the ASRS followed. Based on railway company documents and records of the trade union, the article shows how the i…
Friendly Societies and the Discourse of Respectability in Britain, 1825–1875
In nineteenth-century Britain, friendly societies (working-class mutual benefit clubs) and ruling elites contested definitions of respectability and independence in a struggle to delineate relations between societies and the state. This process was an important part of an ongoing set of negotiations by which working-class organizations influenced middle-class attitudes toward collective action. Pressure from friendly societies forced members of P…
Joshua Hobson and the Business of Radicalism
This article takes a biographical approach to the political history of the English working class, integrating readily-overlooked biographical information with the study of the organization of protest. By gleaning evidence from periodicals, advertisements, pamphlets, and other "ephemeral" sources, it illustrates the business practices undergirding radical agitation in the period 1833 to 1845
Friendly Societies and the Discourse of Respectability in Britain, 1825–1875
In nineteenth-century Britain, friendly societies (working-class mutual benefit clubs) and ruling elites contested definitions of respectability and independence in a struggle to delineate relations between societies and the state. This process was an important part of an ongoing set of negotiations by which working-class organizations influenced middle-class attitudes toward collective action. Pressure from friendly societies forced members of P…
Trust Among Strangers
Class is (still) dead. Numerous suspected assassins could be taken into custody: contemporary society, of course, and politicians of every stripe, but also historians who took the so-called linguis
Mutualism, Friendly Societies, and the Genesis of Railway Trade Unions
‘Mutualism, Friendly Societies, and The Genesis of Railway Trade Unions’ proposes a revised view of the origins of trade unions to account for their friendly society-like inception. Taking as its subject the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants (ASRS), it demonstrates how railway company friendly societies established a model which the ASRS followed. Based on railway company documents and records of the trade union, the article shows how the i…
Joshua Hobson and the Business of Radicalism
This article takes a biographical approach to the political history of the English working class, integrating readily-overlooked biographical information with the study of the organization of protest. By gleaning evidence from periodicals, advertisements, pamphlets, and other "ephemeral" sources, it illustrates the business practices undergirding radical agitation in the period 1833 to 1845
Friendly Societies and the Discourse of Respectability in Britain, 1825–1875
In nineteenth-century Britain, friendly societies (working-class mutual benefit clubs) and ruling elites contested definitions of respectability and independence in a struggle to delineate relations between societies and the state. This process was an important part of an ongoing set of negotiations by which working-class organizations influenced middle-class attitudes toward collective action. Pressure from friendly societies forced members of P…
Mutualism, Friendly Societies, and the Genesis of Railway Trade Unions
‘Mutualism, Friendly Societies, and The Genesis of Railway Trade Unions’ proposes a revised view of the origins of trade unions to account for their friendly society-like inception. Taking as its subject the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants (ASRS), it demonstrates how railway company friendly societies established a model which the ASRS followed. Based on railway company documents and records of the trade union, the article shows how the i…
Regulated Lives
Rock Island Requiem
Reviewed by: Rock Island Requiem: The Collapse of a Mighty Fine Line by Gregory L. Schneider Simon Cordery Gregory L. Schneider. Rock Island Requiem: The Collapse of a Mighty Fine Line. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2013. xx + 380 pp. ISBN 978-0-7006-1918-4, $39.95 (cloth). The story of the long, slow death of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad Company (CRIP) is well known. A staid, highly respected Granger Road falls on hard tim…
Trust Among Strangers
Class is (still) dead. Numerous suspected assassins could be taken into custody: contemporary society, of course, and politicians of every stripe, but also historians who took the so-called linguis
Peter A. Hansen, Don L. Hofsommer, Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes, Crossroads of a Continent
Aaron W. Marrs. The American Transportation Revolution
Political science (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · History (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Economic history (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works)