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6HUM1011 workshop 9. Protest and consumerism. Peter Gurney, ‘Exclusive Dealing in the Chartist movement’, Labour History Review , 74: 1 (2009). What is Gurney’s central hypothesis? What were the Chartist tactics that Gurney describes in the article, and why were they new?
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6HUM1011 workshop 9 Protest and consumerism
Peter Gurney, ‘Exclusive Dealing in the Chartist movement’, Labour History Review, 74: 1 (2009) • What is Gurney’s central hypothesis? • What were the Chartist tactics that Gurney describes in the article, and why were they new? • Who were the ‘shopocracy’ and why did the Chartists hate them? • What types of sources and evidence does Gurney use? • Why, according to Gurney, was the boycott particularly important in the history of protest tactics?
Clare Midgley, ‘Slave Sugar Boycotts, Female Activism and the domestic base of British Anti-slavery culture’ • What was the social and political significance of sugar in the eighteenth century? • Why, according to Midgley, was abstention an effective tactic? • Are there any counter-arguments against Midgley’s argument about the abolition campaign?
discussion • Using the primary sources and the secondary reading, to what extent were consumerist tactics an effective form of protest?
Assessed seminar discussion groups: decide which topic you will be discussing, which sources, and which roles you will each play Group 1: Group 2: Fewery, Robert Herzberg, Matthew Ingrey, Katie Innes, Andrew Jones, Libby Maisey, Samantha • Christmas, Laura-Ann • Cole, Timothy_1 • Cozens, Mark • Fewery, Jenni • Frangou, Nathaniel • Impey, Steven Group 4: Group 3: • Pearce, Jessica • Scott, Greg • Smyth, Bethany • Vincent, Hannah • Vogt, Rebecca • Zaffuto, Carla • Koch, Lewis • Oladipo, Titilola • Parkin, Samantha • Persson, Jan • Roberts, Ben • Roopra, Sabrina • Sole, Carmen