03561nam a22006015i 4500 978-3-031-73306-2 DE-He213 20251030114622.0 cr nn 008mamaa 241217s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031733062 978-3-031-73306-2 10.1007/978-3-031-73306-2 doi DA1-995 HBJD1 bicssc HIS015000 bisacsh NHD 1DD thema Broady, Rachel. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 89038 Poverty and Protest as Public Discourse during the Cotton Crisis [electronic resource] / by Rachel Broady. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. X, 213 p. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Neglected Voices from the Past, 2731-5800 1. Introduction -- 2. The Political Unconscious -- 3. The Triumvirate -- 4. Cottonopolis, poverty and protest -- 5. The cotton workers and the American Civil War -- 6. Marx and Engels in Manchester -- 7. Poor Reporting: interpreting the triumvirate -- 8. Conclusion. 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. Great Britain History. 66701 Social history. Civilization History. 66788 Labor. 60901 History. Journalism. 66133 History of Britain and Ireland. 66703 Social History. Cultural History. 66790 Labor History. 75020 Journalism. 66133 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031733055 Printed edition: 9783031733079 Printed edition: 9783031733086 Neglected Voices from the Past, 2731-5800 80819 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-73306-2 ZDB-2-HTY ZDB-2-SXH 65768 65768