We are all the people of the Vega Baja now
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3007480 |
|---|---|
| Authors | D Kalb (0000-0003-4674-7655, Central European University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 301-304 |
| Publication date | 2010-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Dialectical Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0304-4092 • E-ISSN: 1573-0786 |
| Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1007/s10624-010-9161-2 |
| OpenAlex | W2037149439 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 5 |
For a while in modern European history, urban worker protest milieus had almost by definition been dependent on the involvement of two special types of workerintellectuals. The first was the journeyman printer; the second the artisan in the shoemakers' trade. The latter was commemorated by Hobsbawm and Scott as the ''political shoemakers'' (1984). Political shoemakers were a particular nineteenthcentury breed of urban artisans, with much independent control over their means of production, a proclivity for reading and conversation, and a peculiar air of radical republicanism that shaped a working-class urban public sphere of cafe s, bistros, reading societies, underground circulations, and associations. That air sprang from their reading habit and their autonomy, but also from their gradual loss of control over the conditions of their trade and life. Throughout the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, entrepreneurs all over ''advanced'' Europe were shifting shoe production out of the older urban centers into emergent rural agglomerations unaffected by political regulations or working class organization. The manufacturing agglomerations that emerged-Northampton in the UK, Pirmasens in Germany, the Langstraat in the Netherlands-surely were places with surprisingly bristling popular cultures, but within them the fight for the public sphere of the political shoemakers had given way to bread-and-butter unionism, defensive fights over gender and the exploitation of mothers and daughters, and the desire of core workers, often unionists or shop stewards, to escape downward pressures and become entrepreneurs themselves (Kalb 1997). From the 1950s onwards, these northwestern centers were themselves dismantled in another round of relocations to new peripheral sites in the Mediterranean area. In the new locations, similar
Geography · Political science · Vega · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Rural development and sustainability
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,13 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2023 (14) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |