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Fighting Words - Working-Class Formation, Collective Action, and Discourse in Early Nineteenth-Century England (Hardcover)
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Fighting Words - Working-Class Formation, Collective Action, and Discourse in Early Nineteenth-Century England (Hardcover)
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A key component of social life, discourse mediates the processes of
class formation and social conflict. Drawing on dialogic theory and
building on the work of E. P. Thompson, Marc W. Steinberg argues
for the importance of incorporating discursive analysis into the
historical reconstruction of class experience. Amending models of
collective action, he offers new insights on how discourse shapes
the dynamics of popular protest. To support his thesis, he presents
studies of two English trade groups in the 1820s: cotton spinners
from Lancashire factory towns and London silk weavers.For each
case, Steinberg closely examines the labor process, industrial
organization, social life, community politics, discursive
struggles, and collective actions. By describing how workers shared
experiences of exploitation and oppression in their daily lives, he
shows how discourses of contention were products of struggle and
how they framed possibilities for collective action. Embracing work
in literary theory, sociocultural psychology, and cultural studies,
Fighting Words claims a middle ground between postmodern and
materialist analyses.
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