[Commlist] new book: Poverty and Protest as Public Discourse during the Cotton Crisis

Rachel Broady would like to announce my new book Poverty and Protest as 
Public Discourse during the Cotton Crisis

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-73306-2

It focuses on the protests of unemployed cotton workers in Stevenson 
Square, Manchester, offering an examination of press coverage from the 
commercially and politically competitive /Manchester Guardian/, 
/Manchester Courier/ and /Manchester Examiner and Times/. It utilises 
Fredric Jameson’s interpretive horizons methodology to unearth the 
political unconscious in journalism recording and observing 19^th 
century poverty.

It constitutes the first book-length study of workers’ voices which have 
been comprehensively examined elsewhere in terms of newspapers 
publishing fiction and poetry but much less so in considering their 
political response to the crisis. Amid the celebrated workers’ 
opposition to slavery at the time, and their ‘sublime heroism’ as noted 
by American President Abraham Lincoln, there were less studied local 
struggles for an end to the crisis, for financial help, for education, 
and for the vote. Alongside analysis of news reports, workers’ motions, 
delivered at the protests attended by workers in their many hundreds, 
are discussed and presented in full. The names of all workers who are 
reported as contributing to the meetings are also gathered for the first 
time.

The book, published by Palgrave Macmillan, is part of the Neglected 
Voices from the Past series <https://link.springer.com/series/16883> 
edited by Professor Jane Chapman, which offers a dedicated outlet 
specifically to deal with issues surrounding those on the margins of 
society and groups underrepresented in existing studies.

Both print and e-copies are now available. The book will be launched in 
Spring, hosted by the Liverpool Centre for Cultural, Social and 
Political Research.


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