Emperor Katz's New Clothes; Or with the Wizard in Oz
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5099329 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bryan D Palmer (Simon Fraser University), Michael B Katz (0000-0002-4466-1121), Michael J Doucet, Michael Doucet, Mark J Stern (0000-0002-0294-8941), Mark Stern (0000-0001-8446-9428) |
| Year | 1984 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Pages | 190 |
| Publication date | 1984-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Labour / Le Travail (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0700-3862 • E-ISSN: 1911-4842 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/25140408 |
| OpenAlex | W1548069311 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
THIS BOOK IS THE PRODUCT of massive funding (it and its predecessor, The People of Hamilton, Canada West, acknowledge the support of five institutions of higher learning and four major grants/fellowships) as well as more than ten years of intensive research and collaboration. It would be surprising and shocking if historians and other social scientists could not find arguments, data, and perspectives in a volume of this nature that will enhance their understanding of the past as well as the present. Indeed, they will, for The Social Organization of Early Industrial Capitalism contains a mass of information on class formation, property holding, crime, youth, family, and institutions of early capitalist hegemony, ranging from the school to the asylum. But in the end this pompously mistitled book is a con. For years Michael Katz has been Canadian social history's Wizard of Oz. Behind his admittedly complex and sophisticated quantitative method, and guarded by a score of coders, technicians, programmers, key punchers, and loyal and enthusiastic students, Katz orchestrated a grand project of demographic reconstitution. His themes of structural inequality, mobility, class, and family dominated his first book and remain at the core of this second study. So awed were Canadian historians by the self-confident assertions of Katz & Company, so taken in by the promise of this exotic historical exercise, that the Emperor of Oz faced few critical assessments of his newly established regime. When he paraded before his subjects in 1975, with the publication of The People of Hamilton, Canadian historians were titillated by his display of intellectual nudity. Rather than raise questions about what all of this scholastic exhibitionism meant, they rushed to strip themselves of their critical faculties. The Wizard was nude, off with our clothes! Urban historians committed to the
Capitalism · Clothing · Emperor · Hegemony · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Wizard · Canadian Identity and History · History · Law
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.05 |
| Citation span | 1985 - 1986 (2) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |