TY - JOUR
AU - Weisser, Henry
AB - 490 Reviews of Books While the honours examinations, with their rewards At first glance this book appears to be devoted to for cramming, continued to retard the development of demolishing the concept of the labor aristocracy. Trevor Lummis attempts to show that all of the any sense of contingency, irony, or interpretational categories traditionally associated with this stratum, clash, the professionalizing of the discipline did begin namely high wages, unionization, skilled labor, regular to affect the universities. Most dons were hard pressed employment, and political conservatism, do not hold to keep up with the latest scholarship because of their up when detailed examinations of actual working heavy tutorial responsibilities, yet some made valiant conditions are undertaken. strides toward a more sophisticated understanding and As a replacement for the traditional categories, greater methodological rigor. A few even became Lummis substitutes the concept of secure workers major research scholars themselves. The creation of versus insecure workers, plus a "sub-aristocracy" of lecturers, with their more specialized knowledge, rep­ sernisecure workers. After fashioning a "model" on resented an injection of professionalism into the uni­ this basis, the author applies it to certain specific kinds versity as well as a career opportunity for tutors. 
TI - Trevor Lummis. The Labour Aristocracy, 1851–1914. Aldershot, England: Scolar; distributed by Ashgate, Brookfield, Vt. 1994. Pp. xii, 190. $59.95
JO - The American Historical Review
DO - 10.1086/ahr/101.2.490
DA - 1996-04-01
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SP - 490
EP - 491
VL - 101
IS - 2
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