Moral Economy and Popular Protest : Crowds, Conflict and Authority

by Adrian Randall

• ISBN13: 9780312225926
• ISBN10: 031222592X
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 1999-11-20
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This collection provides a critical evaluation of E.P. Thompson's seminal concept of "the moral economy" and of its application to a wide and diverse field of scholarship. The volume draws together specialists from social and labor history, legal history, social anthropology, and historical geography who examine the developing utilization of the concept of "the moral economy" in different historical and societal contexts.

Author Biography

Adrian Randall is Professor of English Social History at the University of Birmingham.

Andrew Charlesworth is Reader in Human Geography at Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Notes on the Contributors	xii
The moral economy: riots, markets and social conflict	1	(32)
Adrian Randall
Andrew Charlesworth
The food riots of 1347 and the medieval moral economy	33	(22)
Buchanan Sharp
The pragmatic economy, the politics of provisions and the `invention' of the food riot tradition in 1740	55	(38)
John Bohstedt
Moral economy, political economy and law	93	(30)
Douglas Hay
Food riots revisited: popular protest and moral economy in nineteenth-century India	123	(24)
David Arnold
Moral economy, political economy and the American bourgeois revolution	147	(19)
Edward countryman
Industrial disputes, wage bargaining and the moral economy	166	(21)
John Rule
The moral economy as an argument and as a fight	187	(22)
James C. Scott
The Moral economy of the English countryside	209	(64)
Roger Wells
Index	273