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Expanding Class - Power and Everyday Politics in Industrial Communities, The Netherlands 1850-1950 (Paperback, New) Loot Price: R671
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Expanding Class - Power and Everyday Politics in Industrial Communities, The Netherlands 1850-1950 (Paperback, New): Don Kalb

Expanding Class - Power and Everyday Politics in Industrial Communities, The Netherlands 1850-1950 (Paperback, New)

Don Kalb

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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Imprint: Duke University Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: Comparative and International Working-Class History
Release date: 1998
First published: 1998
Authors: Don Kalb
Dimensions: 153 x 235 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 360
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-2022-7
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > General
Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > General
Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > General
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
Books > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
Books > History > World history > From 1900 > General
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LSN: 0-8223-2022-3
Barcode: 9780822320227

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