Fewster The Keelmen of Tyneside

Labour Organisation and Conflict in the North-East Coal Industry, 1600-1830
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-84615-950-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 13, 232 Seiten

Reihe: Regions and Regionalism in History

A comprehensive account of the everyday lives of the keelmen of Tyneside, and their struggles and industrial disputes.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fewster, Joseph

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

THE DOCUMENTS
Introduction
Editorial method
Early years
Documents concerning the Keelmen's Strike of June-July 1710
Daniel Defoe and the Keelmen
Correspondence and documents concerning the Magistrates' Bill to control the Keelmen's Charity
The strike of the Keelmen of Newcastle in conjunction with those at Sunderland, 1719
Another attempt to revive the Charity
Objections to a proposal by the shipmasters to delay the start of the coal trade
The Keelmen's Strike, May 1738
The Riot of 1740 in Newcastle
The Keelmen's part in the riot
Census of Keelmen after the riot of 1740
The Keelmen's Strike of 1744
The Keelmen's Strike of 1750
The Keelmen's Strike of 1768 and attempts by Thomas Harvey, an attorney, to obtain an Act of Parliament to establish their Society and Charity and limit the keel-load
The Keelmen join in general industrial unrest over the high price of corn but continue their strike on account of a threat to their employment, 1771
Unemployment caused by actions of the shipowners, 1787
A new attempt to establish a Charity for the Keelmen, 1786-8
Adjustment of the Keelmen's wages, 1791-2
Riots by Keelmen at Sunderland
Dispute over the loading of ships by spouts, 1794
The Keelmen strike for higher pay, and the authorities attempt to suppress them, 1809
Documents concerning the impressment of Keelmen, 1803-11
The Keelmen's Strike of 1819, the great Radical Reform meeting that coincided with it, and the alarm of the authorities
The 'Long Stop', 1 October - 6 December 1822
The decay of the Keelmen's Hospital
Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Fewster Joseph:
The late JOSEPH M. FEWSTER had an almost life-long interest in the keelmen of Tyneside, culminating in his definitive monograph The Keelmen of Tyneside; Labour Organisation in the North-East Coal Industry, 1600-1830 (2011), to which the present volume provides a valuable supplement.