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Expanding Class: Power And Everyday Politics In Industrial Communities, The Netherlands 18501950 (Comparative And International,Used
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Expanding Class is the study and story of industrial class relations in North Brabant, a Catholic province of The Netherlands, over a hundredyear period. In examining the lives of workers in one of Europes more idiosyncratic industrial regions, Don Kalb affirms the utility of class analysis while responding to the cultural critics who have encouraged a movement away from this focus in labor history. In so doing, Expanding Class advances an interdisciplinary historical anthropology of workingclass formation. Basing his analysis on oral as well as archival sources, Kalb reveals a dynamic relationship between capitalist industrialization, locality, and cultural class identities.Expanding Class compares Brabants quaint central shoemaking district to its electrical boomtown Eindhoven, home of the enormous Philips Corporation. It introduces the concept of 'flexible familism,' a sociological phenomenon in which family daughters were employed to facilitate a cheap and ample labor force. Industrialists manipulated and fostered flexible familism to ensure the discipline and loyalty of the workingclass community. By using the industrial Netherlands as a paradigm, Kalb reveals new and productive ways to examine class construction and the development of labor history in other countries over the past thirty years, steering a path between the two schools of thoughtcultural and economicthat have dominated labor history discussions in recent years.
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