The Chartists

John Charlton

Description

'[The Chartists] is lucid, well crafted, conversant with a mass of literature and highly accessible. It is in short a real achievement...' Professor David McNally, Department of Political Science, York University, Toronto

Chartism was the first national workers' movement, drawing together in activity working men and women throughout Britain. The mass uprisings of 1839, 1842 and 1848 brought many middle-class radicals prominence, but at a local level hundreds of workers also emerged to give the movement a strong, innovative working-class leadership.

The Chartists is the first study to place emphasis on the importance of these mass movements and on the problems of building workers' organisation during the period. John Charlton chronicles the key events and outlines the leading figures, examining many aspects of the movement that are frequently overlooked in introductory texts, from Chartist Christians and Chartist trade unionists to Chartist feminists and the impact of the movement on the thinking of Marx and Engels. Featuring brief biographies and an assessment of recent literature on the subject, this is an original and highly readable history of Chartism.

Introduction

1. The 1830s bourgeois power and the working Class

2. The Making of the Charter

3. The Mass Strike of 1842

4. Downturn 1842–47

5. 1848

6. Anatomy of the Movement

7. State Power

8. Conclusion

Appendix 1 Marx and Engels and Chartism

Appendix 2 Chartism and the Historians

Appendix 3 Brief Biographies

Notes

Index

Sujets

• Political Ideologies
• Political Freedom
• Political Science
• Advocacy group
• Communism
• Chartism
• Socialism
• Post-Communism
• William Cobbett
• Communisme

Informations

• Publié par: Pluto Press
• Date de parution: 20 janvier 1997
• Nombre de lectures: 1
• EAN13: 9781783711161
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 16 Mo

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