Colliers Across the Sea A Comparative Study of Class Formation in Scotland and the American Midwest, 1830-1924

Name: Colliers Across the Sea A Comparative Study of Class Formation in Scotland and the American Midwest, 1830-1924
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ISBN: 9780252025112

ISBN-10: 0252025113

ISBN-13: 9780252025112

Edition: 2000

Authors: John H. Laslett

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Book details

List price: $49.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Publication date: 3/30/2000
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English



List of Figures, Maps, and Tables


Preface


List of Abbreviations


Introduction: Exceptionalist Paradigm or Comparative Social History?



Class Formation among Colliers in Southwest Scotland, 1839-70



Social Structure and Class in Early Scottish Mining Villages: Wishaw and Larkhall, 1830-70



Conflict and Accommodation in Lanarkshire, 1830-64



Crossing the Ocean: British Colliers Migrate to Northern Illinois, 1855-70



Growth of Class Hostilities in Scotland and the American Midwest, 1865-1905



Heyday of Pick Mining in the American Midwest: Braidwood and Streator, 1865-75



Strikes, Internal Conflict, and the Decline of the Class-Harmony Ideal, 1872-82



New Technology, New Immigrants, and Growing Class Conflict: Blantyre and Spring Valley, 1885-1905



The Emergence of Mass Unionism and the Parting of the Political Ways, 1890-1924



Mass Unionism and Early Ventures into Politics



Moving in Tandem to the Left? Socialism and the Colliers, 1900-1914



Denouement: World War I, Labour Party Triumph, and the Collapse of the Left in Illinois, 1914-24


Conclusion: Comparative Class Formation and the Colliers Who Crossed the Sea


Notes


Bibliography of Primary Sources


Index