LEADER 03570nam 22007215 450 001 9910917794203321 005 20241217115249.0 010 $a9783031733062 010 $a3031733061 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-73306-2 035 $a(CKB)37037362000041 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31849101 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31849101 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-73306-2 035 $a(OCoLC)1484075298 035 $a(EXLCZ)9937037362000041 100 $a20241217d2024 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aPoverty and Protest as Public Discourse during the Cotton Crisis /$fby Rachel Broady 205 $a1st ed. 2024. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2024. 215 $a1 online resource (216 pages) 225 1 $aNeglected Voices from the Past,$x2731-5800 311 08$a9783031733055 311 08$a3031733053 327 $a1. 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. 330 $aThis book constitutes the first book-length study of journalistic responses to poverty and protest during the Lancashire cotton crisis. The cotton crisis of 1861-1865 is a popular subject in history, culture and education. Workers' voices are comprehensively studied in terms of newspapers publishing fiction and poetry, and the broader political response to the crisis, the American Civil War and British workers' support of Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. They are, though, overlooked in terms of journalistic representation of workers. Ironically, discussions of the cotton crisis, including where efforts are made to assess the workers' experience, have consistently relied upon journalism as primary sources and the first witness of history without assessing the news copy's political unconscious. This lack of attention is especially apparent when considering workers challenging poverty through dedicated protest. Amid the celebrated workers' opposition to slavery, and their 'sublime heroism' as noted by American President Abraham Lincoln, there were less studied local struggles for financial help, for education, and for the vote. Rachel Broady is Lecturer at Liverpool John Moores University, UK. 410 0$aNeglected Voices from the Past,$x2731-5800 606 $aGreat Britain$xHistory 606 $aSocial history 606 $aCivilization$xHistory 606 $aLabor 606 $aHistory 606 $aJournalism 606 $aHistory of Britain and Ireland 606 $aSocial History 606 $aCultural History 606 $aLabor History 606 $aJournalism 615 0$aGreat Britain$xHistory. 615 0$aSocial history. 615 0$aCivilization$xHistory. 615 0$aLabor. 615 0$aHistory. 615 0$aJournalism. 615 14$aHistory of Britain and Ireland. 615 24$aSocial History. 615 24$aCultural History. 615 24$aLabor History. 615 24$aJournalism. 676 $a338.4767721 700 $aBroady$b Rachel$01780148 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910917794203321 996 $aPoverty and Protest As Public Discourse During the Cotton Crisis$94303765 997 $aUNINA