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Artisans and the Early Labour Movement

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What I present here are a number of ideas concerning the role of artisans in the early labour movement in mid-19th century England, France, and Germany. I do not provide much detail; nor do I provide references to any great extent.1

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  1. For a more detailed working out of many of these ideas see my article: J.Breuilly, Artisan Economy, Artisan Politics, Artisan Ideology: the artisan contribution to the 19th Century European labour movements, in: C. Emsley / J. Walvin (eds.), Artisans, Peasants and Proletarians, 1760-1860, London 1985, pp. 187–225. Since then a major work comparing one aspect of English and German labour has appeared: Chr. Eisenberg, Deutsche und englische Gewerkschaften. Entstehung und Entwicklung bis 1878 im Vergleich, Göttingen 1986. There is also a suggestive article by F. Lenger, Die handwerkliche Phase der Arbeiterbewegung in England, Frankreich, Deutschland und den USA -Plädoyer für einen Vergleich, in: Geschichte und Gesellschaft 13/2 (1987), pp. 232-243.

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  2. J. Jacobs, Cities and the Walth of Nations: Principles of Economic Life, London 1986.

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  3. Arbeiteraristokratie in Grossbritannien und Deutschland. Ein Vergleich, in: U. Engelhardt, Handwerker in der Industrialisierung, Stuttgart 1984, pp. 497–527; Liberalismus oder Sozialdemokratie? Ein Vergleich der britischen und deutschen politischen Arbeiterbewegungen zwischen 1850 und 1875, in: J. Kocka (ed.), Europäische Arbeiterbewegungen im 19. Jahrhundert, Göttingen 1983, pp. 129-166; The labour aristocracy in Britain and Germany 1850-1914: a review of the literature, in: K. Tenfelde (ed.), Geschichte der Arbeiterschaft und der Arbeiterbewegung. Die internationale Forschung, Munich 1986, pp. 179-226; Civil Society and the labour movement, class relations and the law: a comparison between Germany and England, in: J. Kocka (ed.), Arbeiter und Bürger im 19. Jahrhundert, Munich 1986, pp. 287-318.

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Breuilly, J. (1987). Artisans and the Early Labour Movement. In: Pirker, T., Müller, HP., Winkelmann, R. (eds) Technik und Industrielle Revolution. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-322-86311-9_20

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