Working Class Radicalism in Mid-Victorian England

✍ Scribed by J. B. Poole

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 335
• Series: Routledge Revivals
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This fifth volume of annual reviews of developments in the implementation of arms control and environmental agreements and in peacekeeping activities covers recent developments. It discusses nuclear proliferation, nuclear testing, a fissile materials cut-off and the counter-proliferation concept.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Original Title Page
Original Copyright Page
CONTENTS
Dedication Page
Acknowledgements
Preface
1 Problems of Interpretation
2 The Genesis of Working-Class Radicalism
(1) Enlightenment Liberalism and the Origins of the Left
(2) 'The Political-Economic Form of Liberalism', 1798–1834
(3) The Growth of Working-Class Radicalism, 1816–36
(4) The Enlightenment, Evangelicalism, and Individual Improvement
(5) Rationalism and Romanticism
3 The Challenge of Working-Class Radicalism
(1) Chartist Ideology
(2) Chartism and Improvement
(3) Owenism, 1835–45
4 The Mellowing of Middle-Class Liberalism, 1834–51
(1) 'The Inestimable Blessing of Knowledge'
(2) 'To Expand the Intellect and Ennoble the Character'
(3) Social Reformers and the Religion of Improvement
(4) Joseph Cowen, Jr. and 'Onward Movements for Intelligence and Virtue'
5 Mid-Victorian Urban Culture
(1) Consensus and Cohesion
(2) The Sensibility of Aspiration
6 Power and Status Relations
(1) Labour and the Law
(2) Poor Relief
7 Middle-Class Hegemony
(1) The Gospel of Improvement
(2) 'Nobler Forms of Authority'
(3) The Cult of Respectability
(4) Popular Education
(5) The Temperance Movement
8 The Working-Gass Subculture
(1) Independence and Self-Respect
(2) The Perils of Idealism
9 Trade Unions and Friendly Societies
(1) Trade Unions and Class Conflict
(2) Trade Unions and Working-Class Values
(3) Friendly Societies
10 Working-Class Radicalism and Parliamentary Reform
(1) The Acculturation of Working-Class Radicalism
(2) Manhood Suffrage
Index