Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Maps, Tables, and Figures ix
4. Preface xi
5. Part I: Encountering Labour in Field, Archives, and Theory
6. 1. Political Economy, Class, and Locality 3
7. 2. Relations of Class and Thomas town’s ‘Lower Orders’ in 1800 19
8. Part II: Labouring Experience in the Nineteenth Century
9. 3. Realizing the Working Class: Political Economy and Culture 39
10. 4. Political Domains and Working Combinations after 1815 80
11. 5. The Political Domain: Labour as Device, Resource, and Project 100
12. 6. Custom and Respectability: The Petty Sessions 119
13. 7. Privatizing the River: Politicizing Labouring Fishers 142
14. Part III: At the Turn of the Twentieth Century, 1885–1901
15. 8. Political Sentiment and the Inland Fisheries 167
16. 9. Social Organization and the Politics of Labour 193
17. Part IV: Metissage and Hegemony, 1901–50
18. 10. The Organizational Impetus: Class and Nationalism before the War, 1906–14 217
19. 11. From Class to Nation: National Chronology and Local Experience, 1914–23 243
20. 12. From Nation to Class in the New State: Replicating Capital and Labour, 1920–6 262
21. 13. Labouring Viewpoints and Lives: The Metissage of Experience and Identities, 1914–30 281
22. 14. The Uneven Economy and the Moral Economy, 1926–50 301
23. 15. The Quality of Charity, Values, and Entitlements, 1908–50 321
24. 16. Redundancy and Status-Class: Purveying Values through Recreation and Education, 1929–50 339
25. 17. ‘And the Church Preached Its View’ 359
26. 18. ‘We Had a Live Union Then’ 380
27. 19. ‘Much Wants More’: Framing the Politics of Labour 401
28. 20. Inside the Frame: The Politics of Mediation 421
29. 21. Organizing Labour in the 1940s: The Politics of Combination 442
30. 22. Reproducing the Political Regime and Regimen, 1940–50 461
31. Part V: Conclusions: Political Economy and Culture, 1800–1950
32. 23. Theory, Concept, and Text: A Holistic Approach to the Politics of Class 482
33. Notes 505
34. Bibliography 539
35. Index 551
36. Backmatter 567