Poverty and Protest as Public Discourse During the Cotton Crisis

Broady, Rachel

  • 出版商: Palgrave MacMillan
  • 出版日期: 2024-12-12
  • 售價: $5,480
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  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 188
  • 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
  • ISBN: 3031733053
  • ISBN-13: 9783031733055
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This book constitutes the first book-length study of journalistic responses to poverty and protest during the Lancashire cotton crisis. The cotton crisis of 1861-1865 is a popular subject in history, culture and education. Workers' voices are comprehensively studied in terms of newspapers publishing fiction and poetry, and the broader political response to the crisis, the American Civil War and British workers' support of Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. They are, though, overlooked in terms of journalistic representation of workers. Ironically, discussions of the cotton crisis, including where efforts are made to assess the workers' experience, have consistently relied upon journalism as primary sources and the first witness of history without assessing the news copy's political unconscious. This lack of attention is especially apparent when considering workers challenging poverty through dedicated protest. Amid the celebrated workers' opposition to slavery, and their 'sublime heroism' as noted by American President Abraham Lincoln, there were less studied local struggles for financial help, for education, and for the vote.

Rachel Broady is Lecturer at Liverpool John Moores University, UK.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

這本書是對於在蘭開夏棉花危機期間,新聞界對貧窮和抗議的反應進行的首次書籍長度研究。1861年至1865年的棉花危機是歷史、文化和教育中一個受歡迎的主題。工人的聲音在報紙上發表的小說和詩歌中得到了全面的研究,以及對危機的更廣泛政治反應、美國內戰和英國工人對林肯解放宣言的支持。然而,工人在新聞報導中的表現卻被忽視。諷刺的是,對棉花危機的討論,包括對工人經歷的評估,始終依賴於新聞報導作為主要來源和歷史的第一見證,而未對新聞稿的政治無意識進行評估。這種缺乏關注在考慮工人通過專注抗議來挑戰貧窮時尤為明顯。在受到美國總統亞伯拉罕·林肯所提到的工人反對奴隸制的讚譽和他們的「崇高英雄主義」的背景下,當地對於財務援助、教育和投票權的鬥爭卻較少受到研究。

瑞秋·布羅迪(Rachel Broady)是英國利物浦約翰摩爾斯大學的講師。

作者簡介

Rachel Broady is Lecturer at Liverpool John Moores University, UK.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

Rachel Broady 是英國利物浦約翰摩爾斯大學的講師。