Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Tables, Figures and Maps vi
4. Preface vii
5. 1. Introduction 1
6. 2. Early British Labour Movements in Relation to Family Needs 24
7. 3. Weaving Survival in the Tapestry of Village Life. Strategies and Status in the Silesian Weaver Revolt of 1844 39
8. 4. The Case of Clarinna Stringer: Strategic Options and the Household Economy in Late Nineteenth-Century Australia 59
9. 5. Family and Unionisation in the Bricklaying Trade in Turn-of-the-Century Madrid 79
10. 6. ‘Who Will Look after the Kiddies?’ Households and Collective Action during the Dublin Lockout, 1913 110
11. 7. Family Ties and Labour Activism among Silk Workers in Northeastern Pennsylvania, U.S.A., 1900–1920 125
12. 8. The Trade Union as Survival Strategy. The Case of Amsterdam Construction Workers in the First Quarter of the Twentieth Century 140
13. 9. High-Cost Activism and the Worker Household: Interests, Commitment, and the Costs of Revolutionary Activism in a Philippine Plantation Region 166
14. 10. Retreat from Collective Protest: Household, Gender, Work and Popular Opposition in Stalinist Hungary 199
15. 11. Conclusion 230
16. Notes on Contributors 243
17. Index 245