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Exploring Protest and Consumerism: Insights from Gurney and Midgley on Chartism and Anti-slavery

This workshop delves into the significant role of consumerist tactics in historical protests, focusing on Peter Gurney's exploration of exclusive dealing in the Chartist movement and Clare Midgley's analysis of sugar boycotts in the anti-slavery campaign. Participants will discuss Gurney’s hypothesis, Chartist tactics, the concept of 'shopocracy,' and the efficacy of abstention as a protest method. The seminar aims to evaluate various sources, engage in critical discussions, and assess the impact of consumer activism on social and political change.

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Exploring Protest and Consumerism: Insights from Gurney and Midgley on Chartism and Anti-slavery

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  1. 6HUM1011 workshop 9 Protest and consumerism

  2. 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?

  3. 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?

  4. discussion • Using the primary sources and the secondary reading, to what extent were consumerist tactics an effective form of protest?

  5. 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

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