1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910159441403321

Autore

Parfitt Steven

Titolo

Knights across the Atlantic : the Knights of Labor in Britain and Ireland / / Steven Parfitt [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Liverpool, : Liverpool University Press, 2017

Liverpool : , : Liverpool University Press, , 2016

ISBN

1-78694-403-0

1-78138-353-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 260 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Studies in labour history ; ; 7

Disciplina

331.88/330941

Soggetti

Labor unions - Great Britain - History - 19th century

Labor unions - Ireland - History - 19th century

History

Great Britain

Ireland

Grossbritannien

Irland

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Aug 2017).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-255) and index.

Sommario/riassunto

The Noble and Holy Order of the Knights of Labor, the first national movement of the American working class, began in Philadelphia in 1869. Millions of Americans, white and black, men and women, became Knights between that date and 1917. But the Knights also spread beyond the borders of the United States and even beyond North America. <i>Knights Across the Atlantic</i> tells for the first time the full story of the Knights of Labor in Britain and Ireland, where they operated between 1883 and the end of the century. British and Irish Knights drew on the resources of their vast Order to establish a chain of branches through England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland that numbered more than 10,000 members at its peak. They drew on the fraternal ritual, industrial tactics, organisational models, and political concerns of their American Order and interpreted them in British and



Irish conditions. They faced many of the same enemies, including hostile employers and rival trade unions. Unlike their American counterparts they organised only a handful of women at most. But British and Irish Knights left a profound imprint on subsequent British labour history. They helped inspire the British "New Unionists" of the 1890s. They influenced the movement for working-class politics, independent of Liberals and Conservatives alike, that soon led to the British Labour Party. <i>Knights Across the Atlantic </i>brings all these themes together. It provides new insights into relationships between class and gender, and places the Knights of Labor squarely at the heart of British and Irish as well as American history at the end of the nineteenth century.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910842492203321

Autore

Brian Eric

Titolo

Are Statistics Only Made of Data? : Know-how and Presupposition from the 17th and 19th Centuries / / by Éric Brian

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2024

ISBN

9783031512544

3031512545

Edizione

[1st ed. 2024.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (181 pages)

Collana

Methodos Series, Methodological Prospects in the Social Sciences, , 2542-9892 ; ; 20

Disciplina

300

Soggetti

Social sciences

Sampling (Statistics)

Statistics

History

Science - Philosophy

Knowledge, Theory of

Society

Methodology of Data Collection and Processing

History of Statistics

Philosophy of Science

Epistemology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa



Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Foreword: The Peculiar Meanings of Data -- Chapter 1: Considering Data: Critique and Method -- Chapter 2: Data Arithmetic, Ratios and Mechanical Reasoning in the 17th Century -- Chapter 3: Analytical Probability, Averages and Data Distributions in the 19th Century -- Chapter 4: Idols, Paradigms and Specters in Data Sciences -- List of illustations.-List of references.-General index.

Sommario/riassunto

This book examines several epistemological regimes in studies of numerical data over the last four centuries. It distinguishes these regimes and mobilises questions present in the philosophy of science, sociology and historical works throughout the 20th century. Attention is given to the skills of scholars and their methods, their assumptions, and the socio-historical conditions that made calculations and their interpretations possible. In doing so, questions posed as early as Émile Durkheim’s and Ernst Cassirer’s ones are revisited and the concept of symbolic form is put to the test in this particular survey, conducted over long period of time. Although distinct from a methodological and epistemological point of view, today these regimes may be found together in the toolbox of statisticians and those who comment on their conclusions. As such, the book is addressed to social scientists and historians and all those who are interested in numerical productions. This book is a translation of an original French edition. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation.