Working-Class Masculinity and the Rationalized Sex: Gender and Industrial Modernization in the Textile Industry in Postrevolutionary Puebla

Labour Conflicts and Working-Class Culture in Early Modern Holland

International Review of Social History ◽

10.1017/s0020859000010051 ◽

1990 ◽

Vol 35 (3) ◽

pp. 377-420 ◽

Cited By ~ 12

Author(s):

Rudolf Dekker

Keyword(s):

Working Class ◽

Early Modern ◽

Textile Industry ◽

18Th Century ◽

Economic Recession ◽

17Th Century ◽

Class Culture ◽

Informal Workers ◽

Ancien Régime ◽

Modern Era

SUMMARYFrom the 15th to the 18th century Holland, the most urbanized part of the northern Netherlands, had a tradition of labour action. In this article the informal workers' organizations which existed especially within the textile industry are described. In the 17th century the action forms adjusted themselves to the better coordinated activities of the authorities and employers. After about 1750 this protest tradition disappeared, along with the economic recession which especially struck the traditional industries. Because of this the continuity of the transition from the ancien régime to the modern era which may be discerned in the labour movements of countries like France and England, cannot be found in Holland.

Download Full-text

The Hopscotch of Life

A History of the Present ◽

10.1093/oso/9780199498017.003.0004 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 77-98

Author(s):

Ashwin Desai ◽

Goolam Vahed

Keyword(s):

Working Class ◽

Family Life ◽

Textile Industry ◽

Upward Mobility ◽

Paid Work ◽

Home Life ◽

Indian Family ◽

Extended Families ◽

Working Class Women ◽

The 1960S

In this chapter, we delve into the lives of working class women, many of whom obtained jobs in the clothing and textile industry from the 1960s, and whose incomes were crucial for upward mobility. It reveals how they negotiate life in an environment of extended families and patriarchal relations and how paid work offered them freedoms from the strictures of home life. Of particular relevance is showing how post 1990 the opening of the economy to cheap imports affected the lives of working class women and in turn, what consequences this had for Indian family life.

Download Full-text

Making and Breaking the Working Class: Worker Recruitment in the National Textile Industry in Interwar Egypt

International Review of Social History ◽

10.1017/s0020859012000429 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 57 (S20) ◽

pp. 73-96 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Hanan Hammad

Keyword(s):

Working Class ◽

Social Transformation ◽

Textile Industry ◽

Bargaining Power ◽

Geographical Origin ◽

Professional Community ◽

The Other ◽

Recruitment Process ◽

Work Relations ◽

Financial Arrangements

SummaryThis article examines how worker mediation to secure jobs for relatives and co-villagers in the nationalist textile industry influenced working-class formation in interwar Egypt. Mediation was conducted out of a sense of communal commitment or for commission, or indeed both. The fact that rank-and-file workers were able to intervene in the recruitment process reveals that workers were successfully able to manoeuvre in such a way as to balance their unjust work relations with the huge mill and to manipulate its system. On the other hand, this method of recruitment became a source of violence among workers when they fought one another, sometimes fatally, whenever one side failed to respect the terms of the financial arrangements agreed. In most cases it strengthened the communal solidarity based on kinship and geographical origin. In both cementing and distracting from working-class solidarity, worker interference in the recruitment processes was part of the developing sense of social transformation and bonding among a distinctive and connected professional community that hoarded its own bargaining power.

Download Full-text

The “Polishness” of Production: Factory Politics and the Reinvention of Working-Class National and Political Identities in Russian Poland's Textile Industry, 1880-1910

Slavic Review ◽

10.2307/2696903 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 59 (1) ◽

pp. 16-41 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Laura A. Crago

Keyword(s):

Working Class ◽

Trade Unions ◽

Textile Industry ◽

Democratic Party ◽

Social Democratic Party ◽

National Union ◽

Social Democrats ◽

Important Place ◽

The Social ◽

Polish Society

While the development of nineteenth-century Polish nationalism has received considerable scholarly attention, it has almost always focused on how the intelligentsia became the standard-bearers of Polish national consciousness. As a result, we know very little about how other members of Polish society constructed national identities. This is particularly perplexing when it comes to studying Russian Poland's workers, for there was no dearth of Polish nationalist activity among these workers. National demands articulated by Łodź's Polish workers during strikes in 1892, for example, inspired a group of social democrats to abandon internationalism and instead create the Polish Socialist Party (PPS). During the revolution of 1905, nationalism once again assumed an important place in both working-class protest and organization. Workers played a prominent role in the Polish school strikes. They also supported and sustained a uniquely Polish phenomena—a nationalist working-class political party, the National Union of Workers (NZR). Although the NZR and its constituent trade unions could be found within every industry within Russian Poland, the organization gained its greatest foothold within the textile industry. Moreover, it was within the textile industry in 1906 where bitter debates between nationalist and socialist workers erupted in violence after a disgruntled weaver from the Social Democratic Party of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania (SDKPiL) concluded a political argument with an NZR coworker by gunning him down in the street.

Download Full-text