Marc W Steinberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 187383 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marc W Steinberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marc W |
| FAMILY NAME | Steinberg |
| SIGNATURE | STEINBERG M W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Smith College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 43 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 386 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 42 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Coercion in the Cradle
Important recent research highlights the role of forced labor in the expansion of neoliberal capitalism in the global South. In this article I make the case that coerced labor was central to the first industrial revolution, the classical case of Great Britain. I demonstrate that in an area known as the Black Country for its coal, steel, and related industries, master and servant laws allowed criminal prosecution of workers deemed problematic, to …
Beyond Betrayal: The Priest Sex Abuse Crisis, the Voice of the Faithful, and the Process of Collective Identity
Rare is the person who is not aware of the priestly sex abuse crisis within the Catholic Church. Catholics themselves have responded to these revelations through a frame of exit, voice or loyalty. Exit is usually quiet, with Catholics opting out of Mass attendance or no longer claiming a Catholic identity. Loyalty is a bit louder, as laity and clergy together implement programs that better safeguard minors, propose new guidelines within seminary …
Beyond Betrayal: The Priest Sex Abuse Crisis, the Voice of the Faithful, and the Process of Collective Identity
Atlas Stirs: The Promises and Complexities of a Global History of Social Movements
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England's Great Transformation: Law, Labor, and the Industrial Revolution
With England’s Great Transformation , Marc W. Steinberg throws a wrench into our understanding of the English Industrial Revolution, largely revising the thesis at heart of Karl Polanyi’s landmark The Great Transformation . The conventional wisdom has been that in the nineteenth century, England quickly moved toward a modern labor market where workers were free to shift from employer to employer in response to market signals. Expanding on recent …
Redditch, Commercial Agriculture, Needle Manufacturing, and Small-Town Justice
This chapter presents a detailed study of how employers in Redditch used the local magistrates’ court in both needlemaking and farming for labor control. Redditch was an important market town south of Birmingham and its farmed supplied this city. It was also one of the world’s largest centers for needle manufacture. Needlemaking had a very defined division of labor, but was largely unmechanized. In 1860 the major employers and landowners of the t…
Law, Institutions, and Labor Control: Theory and History
This chapter offers a synthesis of historical institutionalism and historical materialism in a top-down approach to analyze the place of the law in labor control regimes. The aim is to develop a macro framework for the analysis of capitalist institutions that fits with the bottom-up perspective of labor process theory. It makes a case for the materiality of the law, and the ways in which institutional inquiry demonstrates how the embedding of lab…
Hanley and the Pottery Industry
This chapter is an in-depth study of how employers in Hanley in the Potteries district in Staffordshire became routinely reliant on master and servant laws for labor control. It focuses particularly on the pottery industry. The chapter charts the course of labor relations between manufacturers and workers in the industry from the mid-1830s, noting how increased reliance on master and servant law was partly the result of the suppression of major s…
The Labor Process and Beyond
This chapter provides and overview and critique of several perspectives on the labor process and workplace control. It starts with a critical engagement with Marx. The chapter then goes beyond Marx by engaging the work of Michael Burawoy, Richard Price and feminist historians. Noting these contributions it makes an argument that the role of law and juridical institutions remains undertheorized and studied.
Retelling The Great Transformation
The final look at labor law and control involves a top-down analysis, examining the ways in which embeddedness at the national level became the stage for significant transformation. One of the signal works that raised the question of how economic activity is embedded in societal institutions and has been the touchstone of many subsequent debates is Karl Polanyi’s The Great Transformation. Social scientists of disparate intellectual persuasions cr…
Hull and the Fishing Trade
This chapter presents a detailed study of how owners of the burgeoning fish trawling industry in Hull relied on apprentices and prosecutions using master and servant law to discipline them. Fish trawling was an industry with small profit margins and conducted using trawlers worked by crews of five. It was one of the most dangerous jobs in Victorian England, and the last one or two positions largely involved menial labor. Trawler owners increasing…
Introduction
This chapter introduces the main questions and analyses of the study. It introduces the argument for combining historical institutionalism and historical materialism to analyze historical capitalist development and labor control regimes. The chapter provides a brief overview of issues concerning the analysis of the capitalist labor process. It advocates both bottom-up and top-down studies of law and capitalist control of the workplace. The chapte…
Conclusion
The conclusion returns first to the specific questions that motivated this study, then briefly addresses the question of class formation that was not the object of this work, and finally turns to some of larger theoretical issues addressed on law, class and institutional analysis. It is possible that the fusion of historical materialism and historical institutionalism offers a new angle for understanding the institutional dynamics of ‘class makin…
England's Great Transformation: Law, Labor, and the Industrial Revolution
Reconfiguring Sovereignty in Foucauldian Genealogies of Power: The Case of English Master and Servant Law and the Dispersion and the Exercise of Sovereignty in the Modern Age
This paper is a critique and partial reconfiguration of the Foucauldian genealogy of sovereignty. Sovereignty is largely conceptualized as the antithesis of governmentality and disciplinary power in the modern age; presented as a negative case as a juridical and centralized power of interdiction and containment in the classical age. I argue that we can genealogically examine how sovereignty in the modern age underwent transformation and dispersio…
The Dilemmas of Social Movement Identity and the Case of the Voice of the Faithful
This article focuses on the dilemmic nature of identity for challengers within organizations and on their emergent responses. It is based on ethnographic research of one affiliate of Voice of the Faithful, a group of Catholics that formed in the wake of the clergy sexual abuse crisis. The abiding faith of the group and their commitment to change the church created a dilemma that encapsulates the central question of this article: how do challenger…
With God on Our Side: The Struggle for Workers' Rights in a Catholic Hospital
Marx, formal subsumption and the law
Unfree Labor, Apprenticeship and the Rise of the Victorian Hull Fishing Industry: An Example of the Importance of Law and the Local State in British Economic Change
Within the last decade there has been considerable renewed attention on the importance of British master and servant law in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as a means of labor discipline and control. This article argues for further analyses of how the law was used within local contexts and specific industries and calls for increased focus on the role of the local state in labor relations. It argues that unfree labor played an important ro…
When politics goes pop: On the intersections of popular and political culture and the case of Serbian student protests
Drawing from work in dialogic theory and cultural studies, this paper provides a perspective on how popular music becomes a facet of social movements. It critiques current work in the social movement literatures analyzing the role of pop in mobilization and collective action, and explores how dialogic analysis and selected work in cultural studies can expand extant perspectives on the role of framing, collective identity, emotions and narrative t…
Inverting History in Octavia Butler's Postmodern Slave Narrative
Beyond of the historical slave narrative, Octavia Butler's 1988 may also be deemed a contemporary science fiction novel, though the author herself claims that is fantasy.... There is no science Kindred (Kenan 495). (1) Butler's vision the novel is certainly not utopic. Whatever its narrative context, Butler's novel looks to the antebellum slave narrative form as a background for exploring issues of literacy opposition to the reality of possession…
The Intellectual Challenges of Toiling in the Vineyard
Capitalist Development, the Labor Process, and the Law
This article critiques and extends Michael Burawoy’s perspective on the political apparatuses of production by arguing that he fails to take into account the embeddedness of labor control within legal institutions. Through a synthesis with new institutionalism and sociolegal studies the author argues that production regimes using unfree labor are favorable for capitalist labor subordination given their particular historical embeddedness in legal …
Fighting Words: Working-Class Formation, Collective Action, and Discourse in Early Nineteenth-Century England
Fighting Words: Working-Class Formation, Collective Action, and Discourse in Early Nineteenth-Century England
Tilting the frame: Considerations on collective action framing from a discursive turn
The Talk and Back Talk of Collective Action: A Dialogic Analysis of Repertoires of Discourse among Nineteenth-Century English Cotton Spinners
This article offers a critique of framing perspectives on collective action discourse and an alternative dialogic approach. The argument set forth is that the latter sees collective action discourse as a joint product of actors' agency and discourse dynamics, including its multivocal nature. Such discourse is a joint product of challengers' rational actions and the constraints of the discursive field. Challengers seek to appropriate and subvert t…
Capitalist Development, the Labor Process, and the Law
This article critiques and extends Michael Burawoy’s perspective on the political apparatuses of production by arguing that he fails to take into account the embeddedness of labor control within legal institutions. Through a synthesis with new institutionalism and sociolegal studies the author argues that production regimes using unfree labor are favorable for capitalist labor subordination given their particular historical embeddedness in legal …
Inverting History in Octavia Butler's Postmodern Slave Narrative
Beyond of the historical slave narrative, Octavia Butler's 1988 may also be deemed a contemporary science fiction novel, though the author herself claims that is fantasy.... There is no science Kindred (Kenan 495). (1) Butler's vision the novel is certainly not utopic. Whatever its narrative context, Butler's novel looks to the antebellum slave narrative form as a background for exploring issues of literacy opposition to the reality of possession…
Unfree Labor, Apprenticeship and the Rise of the Victorian Hull Fishing Industry: An Example of the Importance of Law and the Local State in British Economic Change
Within the last decade there has been considerable renewed attention on the importance of British master and servant law in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as a means of labor discipline and control. This article argues for further analyses of how the law was used within local contexts and specific industries and calls for increased focus on the role of the local state in labor relations. It argues that unfree labor played an important ro…
When politics goes pop: On the intersections of popular and political culture and the case of Serbian student protests
Drawing from work in dialogic theory and cultural studies, this paper provides a perspective on how popular music becomes a facet of social movements. It critiques current work in the social movement literatures analyzing the role of pop in mobilization and collective action, and explores how dialogic analysis and selected work in cultural studies can expand extant perspectives on the role of framing, collective identity, emotions and narrative t…
The Labour of the Country Is the Wealth of the Country”: Class Identity, Consciousness, and the Role of Discourse in the Making of the English Working Class
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The Dialogue of Struggle: The Contest over Ideological Boundaries in the Case of London Silk Weavers in the Early Nineteenth Century
Marc W. Steinberg, The Dialogue of Struggle: The Contest over Ideological Boundaries in the Case of London Silk Weavers in the Early Nineteenth Century, Social Science History, Vol. 18, No. 4 (Winter, 1994), pp. 505-541
A Way of Struggle: Reformations and Affirmations of E. P. Thompson's Class Analysis in the Light of Postmodern Theories of Language
Rethinking Ideology: A Dialogue with Fine and Sandstrom from a Dialogic Perspective
In their recent article Ideology in Action in this journal, Alan Fine and Kent Sandstrom (1993) offer a theoretical account of ideology informed by pragmatism and symbolic interactionism. The authors provide compelling reasons for understanding ideology not simply as beliefs but as situated social action. Their effort to retrieve the analysis of ideology from the realm of the noosphere is a welcome departure from more traditional conceptions. Mor…
Reconfiguring Sovereignty in Foucauldian Genealogies of Power: The Case of English Master and Servant Law and the Dispersion and the Exercise of Sovereignty in the Modern Age
This paper is a critique and partial reconfiguration of the Foucauldian genealogy of sovereignty. Sovereignty is largely conceptualized as the antithesis of governmentality and disciplinary power in the modern age; presented as a negative case as a juridical and centralized power of interdiction and containment in the classical age. I argue that we can genealogically examine how sovereignty in the modern age underwent transformation and dispersio…
The re-making of the English working class
The Dilemmas of Social Movement Identity and the Case of the Voice of the Faithful
This article focuses on the dilemmic nature of identity for challengers within organizations and on their emergent responses. It is based on ethnographic research of one affiliate of Voice of the Faithful, a group of Catholics that formed in the wake of the clergy sexual abuse crisis. The abiding faith of the group and their commitment to change the church created a dilemma that encapsulates the central question of this article: how do challenger…
Marx, formal subsumption and the law
Culturally speaking: Finding a commons between post‐structuralism and the Thompsonian perspective∗
(1996). Culturally speaking: Finding a commons between post‐structuralism and the Thompsonian perspective. Social History: Vol. 21, No. 2, pp. 193-214
Recent social movement theory: Moving from the theoretical margins to main street
Fence Sitting for a Better View: Finding a Middle Ground Between Materialism and the Linguistic Turn in the Epistemology of History
Over the past several decades the social sciences have experienced an expansion of historical research. Much of this historical work is linked to the new social history that has significant materialist roots in cultural Marxism and the Annales school. In the past several years this epistemology has been challenged by members of the linguistic turn who draw on poststructuralism and deconstructionism. They seek to debunk what they see as the metana…
Class Formation and Urban-Industrial Society: Bradford, 1750-1850
Holding the Line: Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983
Rock Music: Culture, Aesthetics and Sociology
The re-making of the English working class
Recent social movement theory: Moving from the theoretical margins to main street
Rethinking Ideology: A Dialogue with Fine and Sandstrom from a Dialogic Perspective
In their recent article Ideology in Action in this journal, Alan Fine and Kent Sandstrom (1993) offer a theoretical account of ideology informed by pragmatism and symbolic interactionism. The authors provide compelling reasons for understanding ideology not simply as beliefs but as situated social action. Their effort to retrieve the analysis of ideology from the realm of the noosphere is a welcome departure from more traditional conceptions. Mor…
The Dialogue of Struggle: The Contest over Ideological Boundaries in the Case of London Silk Weavers in the Early Nineteenth Century
Marc W. Steinberg, The Dialogue of Struggle: The Contest over Ideological Boundaries in the Case of London Silk Weavers in the Early Nineteenth Century, Social Science History, Vol. 18, No. 4 (Winter, 1994), pp. 505-541
Discourse and Destruction: The City of Philadelphia Versus Move.Robin Wagner-Pacifici
“The Great End of All Government…”: Working People's Construction of Citizenship Claims in Early Nineteenth-Century England and the Matter of Class
In the heat of the battle for parliamentary reform William Cobbett preached to the working people of England in his inimitable blustery dictums. “[I]f you labour honestly,” he counselled, “you have a right to have, in exchange for your labour, a sufficiency out of the produce of the earth, to maintain yourself and your family as well; and, if you are unable to labour, or if you cannot obtain labour, you have a right to maintenance out of the prod…
Culturally speaking: Finding a commons between post‐structuralism and the Thompsonian perspective∗
(1996). Culturally speaking: Finding a commons between post‐structuralism and the Thompsonian perspective. Social History: Vol. 21, No. 2, pp. 193-214
The Labour of the Country Is the Wealth of the Country”: Class Identity, Consciousness, and the Role of Discourse in the Making of the English Working Class
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Fabrication of Labor: Germany and Britain, 1640-1914
Short notices
Owen Ashton, Robert Fyson and Stephen Roberts (eds), The Duty of Discontent: Essays for Dorothy Thompson (1995), 192 (Mansell Publishing, London, £50.00/$90.00). Roger V. Gould, Insurgent Identities: Class, Community, and Protest in Paris from 1848 to the Commune (1995), viii + 253 (University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, $40.95/£32.75). Susan D. Pennybacker, A Vision for London 1889–1914: Labour, Everyday Life and the LCC Experiment (19…
A Way of Struggle: Reformations and Affirmations of E. P. Thompson's Class Analysis in the Light of Postmodern Theories of Language
Fence Sitting for a Better View: Finding a Middle Ground Between Materialism and the Linguistic Turn in the Epistemology of History
Over the past several decades the social sciences have experienced an expansion of historical research. Much of this historical work is linked to the new social history that has significant materialist roots in cultural Marxism and the Annales school. In the past several years this epistemology has been challenged by members of the linguistic turn who draw on poststructuralism and deconstructionism. They seek to debunk what they see as the metana…
Tilting the frame: Considerations on collective action framing from a discursive turn
The Talk and Back Talk of Collective Action: A Dialogic Analysis of Repertoires of Discourse among Nineteenth-Century English Cotton Spinners
This article offers a critique of framing perspectives on collective action discourse and an alternative dialogic approach. The argument set forth is that the latter sees collective action discourse as a joint product of actors' agency and discourse dynamics, including its multivocal nature. Such discourse is a joint product of challengers' rational actions and the constraints of the discursive field. Challengers seek to appropriate and subvert t…
Fighting Words: Working-Class Formation, Collective Action, and Discourse in Early Nineteenth-Century England
Fighting Words: Working-Class Formation, Collective Action, and Discourse in Early Nineteenth-Century England
Fighting Words: Working-Class Formation, Collective Action, and Discourse in Early Nineteenth-Century England
The Intellectual Challenges of Toiling in the Vineyard
Capitalist Development, the Labor Process, and the Law
This article critiques and extends Michael Burawoy’s perspective on the political apparatuses of production by arguing that he fails to take into account the embeddedness of labor control within legal institutions. Through a synthesis with new institutionalism and sociolegal studies the author argues that production regimes using unfree labor are favorable for capitalist labor subordination given their particular historical embeddedness in legal …
When politics goes pop: On the intersections of popular and political culture and the case of Serbian student protests
Drawing from work in dialogic theory and cultural studies, this paper provides a perspective on how popular music becomes a facet of social movements. It critiques current work in the social movement literatures analyzing the role of pop in mobilization and collective action, and explores how dialogic analysis and selected work in cultural studies can expand extant perspectives on the role of framing, collective identity, emotions and narrative t…
Inverting History in Octavia Butler's Postmodern Slave Narrative
Beyond of the historical slave narrative, Octavia Butler's 1988 may also be deemed a contemporary science fiction novel, though the author herself claims that is fantasy.... There is no science Kindred (Kenan 495). (1) Butler's vision the novel is certainly not utopic. Whatever its narrative context, Butler's novel looks to the antebellum slave narrative form as a background for exploring issues of literacy opposition to the reality of possession…
Unfree Labor, Apprenticeship and the Rise of the Victorian Hull Fishing Industry: An Example of the Importance of Law and the Local State in British Economic Change
Within the last decade there has been considerable renewed attention on the importance of British master and servant law in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as a means of labor discipline and control. This article argues for further analyses of how the law was used within local contexts and specific industries and calls for increased focus on the role of the local state in labor relations. It argues that unfree labor played an important ro…
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