Author: David Green (Of the Redemption Society)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Village communities
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
The Claims of the Redemption Society Considered
Author: David Green (Of the Redemption Society)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Village communities
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
The Claims of the Redemption Society Considered ... Being a Lecture, Etc
Author: David Green (of the Redemption Society.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Land Reform and Working-Class Experience in Britain and the United States, 1800-1862
Author: Jamie L. BronsteinPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804734516
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
By exploring in detail land reform movements in Britain and the United States, this book transcends traditional labor history and conceptions of class to deepen our understanding of the social, political, and economic history of both countries in the nineteenth century. Although divided by their diverse experiences of industrialization, and living in countries with different amounts of available land, many working people in both Britain and the United States dreamed of free or inexpensive land to release them from the grim conditions of the 1840s: depressing, overcrowded cities, low wages or unemployment, and stifling lives. Focusing on the Chartist Land Company, the Potters Joint-Stock Emigration Society, and the American National Reform movement, this study analyses the ideas that motivated workers to turn to land reform, the creation of working-class land reform cultures and identities among both men and women, and the international communication that enabled the formation of a transatlantic movement. Though there were similarities in the ideas behind the land reform movements, in their organizational strategies, and in their relationships with other reform movements in the two countries, the authors examination of their grassroots constituencies reveals key differences. In the United States, land reformers included small proprietors as well as artisans and factory workers. In Britain, by contrast, at least a quarter of Chartist Land Company participants lived in cotton-manufacturing towns, strongholds of unpropertied workers and radical activity. When the land reform movements came into contact with the organs of the press and government, the differences in membership became crucial. The Chartist Land Company was repressed by a government alarmed at the prospect of workers autonomy, and the Potters Joint-Stock Emigration Society died the natural death of straitened finances, but the American land reform movement experienced some measure of successso much so that during the revolution in American political parties during the 1850s, land reform, once a radical issue, became a mainstream plank in the Republican platform
Citizens and Saints
Author: Gregory ClaeysPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521892766
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
This book examines the emergence of early socialist ideas, focusing on British Owenite socialism.
The Westminster and Foreign Quarterly Review
Author: Westminster and Foreign Quarterly Review
Author: The Foreign Quarterly Review
Author: The Westminster Review
Author: The Chosen Ones
Author: Nikki JonesPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520963318
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
In The Chosen Ones, sociologist and feminist scholar Nikki Jones shares the compelling story of a group of Black men living in San Francisco’s historically Black neighborhood, the Fillmore. Against all odds, these men work to atone for past crimes by reaching out to other Black men, young and old, with the hope of guiding them toward a better life. Yet despite their genuine efforts, they struggle to find a new place in their old neighborhood. With a poignant yet hopeful voice, Jones illustrates how neighborhood politics, everyday interactions with the police, and conservative Black gender ideologies shape the men’s ability to make good and forgive themselves—and how the double-edged sword of community shapes the work of redemption.
Robert Owen and the Owenites in Britain and America (Routledge Revivals)
Author: John HarrisonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135191409
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
Robert Owen and the Owenites were associated with the rise of an early industrial society in Britain and with the development of an agricultural, frontier society in the United States during the first half of the nineteenth century. This book, originally published in 1969, was the first to use both British and American source material, and tells the story of Robert Owen and the movement associated with his name, from the standpoint of comparative social and intellectual history. The book directs new light on Owenism, and at the same time illuminates general problems of the history of social movements and social change in modern societies.