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Protest, politics and work in rural England, 1700-1850
In: Social history in perspective
Introduction: Understanding Rural Protest -- Work, Worklessness and the Poor Law -- Rural Worker, Custom and the State -- Land and Environmental Change -- Community, Custom and Religion: Unsettling the Everyday -- Protest Practice -- Rural Rebellion -- Rural Popular Politics -- Conclusion
MalcolmChase, 1820: disorder and stability in the United Kingdom (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2013. Pp. xi + 247. 8 figs. ISBN 9780719087417 Hbk. £70)
In: The economic history review, Band 68, Heft 3, S. 1067-1068
ISSN: 1468-0289
Rural Rebellion
In: Protest, Politics and Work in Rural England, 1700–1850, S. 118-143
Rural Workers, Custom and the State
In: Protest, Politics and Work in Rural England, 1700–1850, S. 42-64
Work, Worklessness and the Poor Law
In: Protest, Politics and Work in Rural England, 1700–1850, S. 17-41
Protest Practice
In: Protest, Politics and Work in Rural England, 1700–1850, S. 99-117
Land and Environmental Change
In: Protest, Politics and Work in Rural England, 1700–1850, S. 65-81
Introduction: Understanding Rural Protest
In: Protest, Politics and Work in Rural England, 1700–1850, S. 1-16
Conclusion
In: Protest, Politics and Work in Rural England, 1700–1850, S. 168-175
Rural Popular Politics
In: Protest, Politics and Work in Rural England, 1700–1850, S. 144-167
Community, Custom and Religion: Unsettling the Everyday
In: Protest, Politics and Work in Rural England, 1700–1850, S. 82-98
Becoming Private Property: Custom, Law, and the Geographies of 'Ownership' in 18th- and 19th-Century England
In: Environment and planning. A, Band 42, Heft 3, S. 747-762
ISSN: 1472-3409
The making private of hitherto public goods is a central tenet of neoliberalism. From land in Africa, Asia, and South America to the assertion of property rights over genes and cells by corporations, the process(es) of making private property matters more than ever. And yet, despite this importance, we know remarkably little about the spatial plays through which things become private property. In this paper I seek to address this imbalance by focusing upon the formative context of 18th- and early-19th-century England. The specific lens is wood, that most critical of all 'natural' things other than land in the transition to market-driven economies. It is shown that the interplay between custom, law, and local practices rendered stable and aspatial definitions of property impossible. Whilst law was the key technology through which property was mediated, the cadence of particular places gave these mediations distinctive forms. I conclude that not only must we take property seriously, but we must also take the conditions and contexts of its making seriously too.
Swing, Swing Redivivus, or Something After Swing? On the Death Throes of a Protest Movement, December 1830–December 1833
In: International review of social history, Band 54, Heft 3, S. 459-497
ISSN: 1469-512X
SummaryPublished in 1969, Hobsbawm and Rudé's Captain Swing remains the sole national account of the so-called "Swing riots" that diffused throughout most of rural southern, central, and eastern England in the autumn and winter of 1830. Whilst much revisionist work has been published since, Hobsbawm and Rudé's contention that Swing's brutal judicial repression effectively ended the protests has remained essentially unchallenged. Through an archival re-examination of the resort to protest between the 1830 trials and December 1833, this paper contends that the received understanding that Swing was crushed is too simplistic. In some locales, Swing maintained its momentum, in others it revived. Swing also morphed into different forms, both real and phantasmagorical. But the intensity of protests did decline. By the autumn of 1833, protests were less frequent, now representing a fractured, isolated spatiality instead of a coherent protest campaign.