Workers: Worlds of LaborEssays on the history of the working class and labour movements, 19th Century, referring mainly to the UK - reflects on cultural factors and sociological aspects influencing labour relations in a context of social class consciousness, relationships between work and religion, emerging political ideologies, rise of socialism, etc.; studies labour ritual and iconography, sex discrimination of woman workers, trade unionization and trade unionism, struggle for human rights and workers rights. Photographs, references, statistical tables. |
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Notes on Class Consciousness | 15 |
Religion and the Rise of Socialism | 33 |
What is the Workers Country? | 49 |
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