Description
Book SynopsisThe Swing Riots were the most dramatic and widespread rising of the English rural poor. Protestors destroyed machines, demanding higher wages and better poor relief. Swing represented a genuine challenge to the existing ruling order, provoking a bitter and bloody repression. This is a vivid account of a defining moment in British history. -- .
Trade ReviewMeticulously researched'
Mark Metcalf,Tribune, December 2012
'Griffin has provided a compelling reappraisal of Swing which is a major contribution to geographies of rural protest. It also offers a vision for a post-Thompsonian way of thinking about the forms of subaltern political activity in English countryside.'
Dave Featherstone, Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography
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Table of ContentsIntroduction
Part I
1 Rough men, pleasant histories
2 Life and labour on and off the parish
3 Something before Swing or Swing itself?
Part II
4 Movement dynamics and diffusion
5 Movement mechanisms
Part III
6 The politics of the parish
7 Radical participatory politics
8 The gender politics of Swing
Part IV
9 Suppressing Swing
10 Swing and social policy
11 Something after Swing?
Conclusions
Appendix
Index
