Peter Akers
Biographic Data
| ID | 689187 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Akers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Akers |
| SIGNATURE | AKERS P |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A Failure of Voluntarism: Shop Assistants and the Struggle to Restrict Trading Hours in the Colony of Victoria, 1850-85
The struggle over shop trading hours is a significant but neglected component of the nineteenth century working-hours debate. This struggle involved a wide array of workers and their organisations, including journeymen bakers and butchers as well as shop assistants (such as drapers' assistants and grocers' assistants). For these workers, hours of labour were dictated by the trading hours of establishments they worked in, alternate sources of supp…
Reconsidering the Collective Impulse: Formal Organization and Informal Associations among Workers in the Australian Colonies, 1795-1850
This paper presents a reinterpretation of the causes for the US Patriot movement of 1837-38, which rose up in support of the Canadian rebellion in Upper Canada (UC) initiated by William Lyon Mackenzie (the companion rebellion in Lower Canada is not considered in this paper since its causation was arguably considerably different). Most traditional treatments of this event, by US historians in particular, are stuck in narrative mode and lack convin…
A Failure of Voluntarism: Shop Assistants and the Struggle to Restrict Trading Hours in the Colony of Victoria, 1850-85
The struggle over shop trading hours is a significant but neglected component of the nineteenth century working-hours debate. This struggle involved a wide array of workers and their organisations, including journeymen bakers and butchers as well as shop assistants (such as drapers' assistants and grocers' assistants). For these workers, hours of labour were dictated by the trading hours of establishments they worked in, alternate sources of supp…
Reconsidering the Collective Impulse: Formal Organization and Informal Associations among Workers in the Australian Colonies, 1795-1850
This paper presents a reinterpretation of the causes for the US Patriot movement of 1837-38, which rose up in support of the Canadian rebellion in Upper Canada (UC) initiated by William Lyon Mackenzie (the companion rebellion in Lower Canada is not considered in this paper since its causation was arguably considerably different). Most traditional treatments of this event, by US historians in particular, are stuck in narrative mode and lack convin…
Reconsidering the Collective Impulse: Formal Organization and Informal Associations among Workers in the Australian Colonies, 1795-1850
This paper presents a reinterpretation of the causes for the US Patriot movement of 1837-38, which rose up in support of the Canadian rebellion in Upper Canada (UC) initiated by William Lyon Mackenzie (the companion rebellion in Lower Canada is not considered in this paper since its causation was arguably considerably different). Most traditional treatments of this event, by US historians in particular, are stuck in narrative mode and lack convin…
A Failure of Voluntarism: Shop Assistants and the Struggle to Restrict Trading Hours in the Colony of Victoria, 1850-85
The struggle over shop trading hours is a significant but neglected component of the nineteenth century working-hours debate. This struggle involved a wide array of workers and their organisations, including journeymen bakers and butchers as well as shop assistants (such as drapers' assistants and grocers' assistants). For these workers, hours of labour were dictated by the trading hours of establishments they worked in, alternate sources of supp…
Economics (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Advertising (1 works) · Australian History and Society (1 works) · Business (1 works) · Canadian Identity and History (1 works) · Computer Science (1 works) · Democracy (1 works) · Economic history (1 works)