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Expanding Class - Power and Everyday Politics in Industrial Communities, The Netherlands 1850-1950 (Paperback, New)
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Expanding Class - Power and Everyday Politics in Industrial Communities, The Netherlands 1850-1950 (Paperback, New)
Series: Comparative and International Working-Class History
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Expanding Class is the study and story of industrial class
relations in North Brabant, a Catholic province of The Netherlands,
over a hundred-year period. In examining the lives of workers in
one of Europe's more idiosyncratic industrial regions, Don Kalb
affirms the utility of class analysis while responding to the
cultural critics who have encouraged a movement away from this
focus in labor history. In so doing, Expanding Class advances an
interdisciplinary historical anthropology of working-class
formation. Basing his analysis on oral as well as archival sources,
Kalb reveals a dynamic relationship between capitalist
industrialization, locality, and cultural class identities.
Expanding Class compares Brabant's quaint central shoemaking
district to its electrical boomtown Eindhoven, home of the enormous
Philips Corporation. It introduces the concept of "flexible
familism," a sociological phenomenon in which family daughters were
employed to facilitate a cheap and ample labor force.
Industrialists manipulated and fostered flexible familism to ensure
the discipline and loyalty of the working-class community. By using
the industrial Netherlands as a paradigm, Kalb reveals new and
productive ways to examine class construction and the development
of labor history in other countries over the past thirty years,
steering a path between the two schools of thought-cultural and
economic-that have dominated labor history discussions in recent
years.
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