TY - JOUR
AU - August, Andrew
AB - Abstract In their communities, and in interactions with authorities and profit-seekers, residents of late Victorian London working-class districts struggled forcefully over the distribution of power, resources and prestige. They battled one another, in households and neighbourhoods, enforcing hierarchies and unequal access to resources. Philanthropists met hostile, manipulative and assertive poor people. Working-class Londoners resisted unwelcome state incursions and exploited government resources toward their own ends. They also fought employers and landlords over resources and power. Though their involvement in unions and socialist politics was uneven, these working-class Londoners participated actively in a pervasive politics of everyday life. Footnotes * Portions of this argument have been prsented at the Midwest, Pacific Coast and Middle Atlantic Conferences on British Studies and at the New York State Association of European Historians. I am grateful to Alexander Auerbach, David Cannadine, Margot Finn, Seth Koven and Susan Thorne, the Delaware Valley British Studies Reading Group and an anonymous reviewer for their comments on drafts of the article. PDF This content is only available as a PDF. Institute of Historical Research 2001 This article is published and distributed under the terms of the Oxford University Press, Standard Journals Publication Model (https://academic.oup.com/journals/pages/open_access/funder_policies/chorus/standard_publication_model) Institute of Historical Research 2001
TI - A culture of consolation? Rethinking politics in working-class London, 1870–1914
JF - Historical Research
DO - 10.1111/1468-2281.00124
DA - 2001-05-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/a-culture-of-consolation-rethinking-politics-in-working-class-london-In05tnCzcL
SP - 193
EP - 219
VL - 74
IS - 184
DP - DeepDyve
ER -