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Rural workers in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century England were not passive victims in the face of rapid social change. Carl J. Griffin shows that they deployed an extensive range of resistances to defend their livelihoods and communities. Locating protest in the wider contexts of work, poverty and landscape change, this new text offers the first critical overview of this growing area of study.
List of Abbreviations Acknowledgements Preface Introduction: Understanding Rural Protest 1. Work, Worklessness and the Poor Law 2. Rural Workers, Custom and the State 3. Land and Environmental Change 4. Community, Custom and Religion: Unsettling the Everyday 5. Protest Practice 6. Rural Rebellion 7. Rural Popular Politics Conclusion Notes Further Reading Index.
