イギリス綿紡績工組合と労働者文化、一七九二-一八一〇年
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Marx thought that factory workers were made to be under the dictatorship of capitalists when capitalist production was established in the Industrial Revolution. Neo-Marxians, however, insisted that in the case of the early English cotton spinning industry the mule spinners, who occupied the central part of the skilled factory workers, successfully continued to control their workshops and labour process. This view demolished the traditional thesis, but activities and culture of the spinners unions were hardly made clear by their studies. I attempt to confirm who controlled the workshops in the early cotton mule spinning industry by investigating cultures and activities of the mule spinners associations. The results of my research are as follows. First, the early spinners friendly societies had functions of trade unions. They controlled the entry to trade and turned out for advance of wage. Secondly, the unions were based on informal relations through the footing, which were important customs among them when they got new members of the unions or shops. Such kind of the custom had made the spinners unions big and strong. Thirdly, the unions struggled not only for improvement of their labour conditions but control of factory management. Their struggles were militant enough to control it. It is clear that their movements were successful during the period of the early Industrial Revolution. There was no decline of their wages and they enjoyed freedom in the shops until 1810. This research evidently supports not Marx's but Neo-Marxians'view in the early Industrial Revolution at least.
- 社会経済史学会の論文
- 1992-01-25