James Jaffe

• University of Wisconsin–Madison

Throughout the mofussil of the Bombay Presidency British judges and magistrates called upon panchayats, that is, caste or village councils, to help them administer justice. By the mid-nineteenth century, panchayats were being deployed by British justices not only to offer their advice to judges attempting to decide a case, but much more frequently...

With relatively few exceptions, personal petitions from individuals have received much less attention from historians than those from groups in the public political sphere. In one sense, personal petitions adopted many of the same rhetorical strategies as those delivered by a group. However, they also offer unique insights into the quotidian relati...

Purpose Billions of entrepreneurs at the Base of the Pyramid (BoP) operate as small-scale producers within multi-tiered supply chain networks. Unfortunately, a majority of these entrepreneurs are simply unable to derive sufficient value from the network and are vulnerable to disasters and poverty. The purpose of this paper is to develop a typology...

The famous Nanavati case of 1959 gave birth to two myths: that it was the last jury trial in India and that it was the prurient sensationalism of the new tabloid press, Blitz in particular, that corrupted the jury system and made its abolition necessary. It was actually the refusal of the government and the legal profession to confront class and ca...

This article analyses the role of the legal profession and the evolution of aspects of Indian nationalist ideology during the Non-Cooperation Movement of 1920–22. Very few legal professionals responded to Gandhi's call to boycott the British courts despite significant efforts to establish alternative institutions dedicated to resolving disputes. Fi...

The Indian village council, or panchayat, has long held an iconic place in India. Ironies of Colonial Governance traces the history of that ideal and the attempts to adapt it to colonial governance. Beginning with an in-depth analysis of British attempts to introduce a system of panchayat governance during the early nineteenth century, it analyses...

This article analyses the reception and understanding of the Indian village council (panchayat) among East India Company officials, British politicians, and Indian intellectuals during the first third of the nineteenth century. One of the several ways in which the panchayat was imagined was as an institution analogous to the English jury. As such,...

Any historian must delight in the publication of a new work by Joel Mokyr. His earlier works on British and Irish economic history have always been filled with new insights, rigorous methodologies, and an unquantifiable wry wisdom. The Enlightened Economy has all of that and more. As the title suggests, this book seeks to explore and explain the co...

This collection seeks to break new ground for the further study of the history of apprenticeship, guild regulation, and the social context of work training. In a narrow sense, the essays presented here collectively contribute toward that goal. There are several interesting insights to be gained as well as important revisions to our understanding of...

The Church of England and the Durham coalfield, 1810–1926. Clergymen, capitalists and colliers. By LeeRobert. (Regions and Regionalism in History, 8.) Pp. xii+340 incl. 54 tables and 3 figs. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2007. £50. 978 1 84383 347 5; 1742 8254 - Volume 60 Issue 2 - James Jaffe

ClarkGregory. A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007. xii + 420 pp. ISBN 978-0-691-12135-2, $29.95 (cloth). - Volume 9 Issue 4 - James Jaffe

Anthropologists long have been aware that the exchange process possesses multiple meanings. Familiar market-based exchanges, for example, exhibit not only fundamental economic features of a given society, such as systems of production and distribution; they also express less tangible cultural values such as wants, desires, and even dreams. Moreover...

Gregory Clark always has exhibited one of the keener minds in the field of modern economic history. Possessed as he is with great quantitative skills, wit, and more than a bit of irreverence, he often has brought a special angular approach to oft-debated historical questions. His numerous journal articles published over the last two decades compris...

GreenDavid R., From Artisans to Paupers: Economic Change and Poverty in London, 1790–1870. Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1995. xvii + 298. pp. $76.95 cloth. - Volume 51 - James A. Jaffe

KaplanHerbert H.. Nathan Mayer Rothschild and the Creation of a Dynasty: The Critical Years, 1806–1816. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2006. Pp. xxiv+185. $40.00 (cloth). - Volume 46 Issue 1 - James Jaffe

JamesHarold. Family Capitalism: Wendels, Haniels, Falcks, and the Continental European Model. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2006. xii + 434 pp. ISBN 0-674-02181-9, $39.95 (paper). - Volume 7 Issue 4 - James A. Jaffe

Technology and Culture 47.1 (2006) 195-196 Perhaps more than any other social movement, Luddism epitomizes the complex nexus between technology and culture. Between 1811 and 1817, disparate and apparently unconnected machine-breaking movements appeared in the English Midlands, Lancashire, Cheshire and surrounding areas in the northwest, and the Wes...

Technology and Culture 46.1 (2005) 247-249 The importance of taxation for the state and civil society has always been both evident and multivalent. At one level, taxation is a simple shillings-and-pence issue that readily evokes deep-seated expressions of anger and resentment. Protest movements, demonstrations, and, of course, revolutions have been...

Contents: Introduction The nature and development of the printing trade The status of the compositor in the hierarchy of labour Workplace control and issues of gender Skilled compositors, their trade union leaders and employers Conclusion Bibliography Index.

The hidden abode - industrial relations and the failure of economic discourse a transactional universe - trade union ideologies during the industrial revolution workplace bargaining during the Industrial Revolution employers' organizations, trade unions and collective bargaining the gift at work? - the effort bargain and shopfloor restriction games...

Patrick Duffy. The Skilled Compositor, 1850-1914: An Aristocrat among Working Men. (Modern Economic and Social History.) Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate. 2000. Pp. xii, 231. $79.95. ISBN 0-7546-0255-9. - Volume 34 Issue 4 - James Jaffe

In an obscure aside, the well-known English working-class radical, Francis Place, remarked in his Autobiography that even when “in deepest poverty” he had tried to serve other artisans. Some he had helped to train up as small masters or foremen while others he aided by working to settle their problems and disputes. “I had many matters brought to me...

The field of debate over the value of postmodernism for the practice of history by now has become littered with the remains of so many alleged authorities that even General Douglas Haig might quail before such a prospect. Cynicism is perhaps the best defense against the assaults being launched from both sides of this new no man's land. However, eve...

Lowell J. Satre. Thomas Burt, Miners’ MP, 1837-1922: The Great Conciliator. Leicester: Leicester University Press; dist. by Continuum, New York. 1999. Pp. vi, 200. $75.00. ISBN 0-7185-0184-5. - Volume 32 Issue 3 - James A. Jaffe

It is well known to readers of this journal that the British labor movement is in a state of precipitous decline. A recent government White Paper, for example, reports that since 1990 alone the percentage of workplaces with no union members at all has risen from 36 percent to 47 percent. Perhaps more ominously, the percentage of workplaces that rec...

Roy Church and Quentin Outram. Strikes and Solidarity: Coalfield Conflict in Britain, 1889-1966. New York: Cambridge University Press. 1998. Pp. xx, 314. $69.95. ISBN 0-521-55460-8. - Volume 31 Issue 1 - James A. Jaffe

DrummondDiane K.. Crewe: Railway Town, Company and People, 1840–1914. Aldershot, U.K.: Edward Elgar Publishing Company; distributed by Ashgate Publishing Company, Brookfield, Vt. 1994. Pp. viii, 222. $63.95. ISBN 1-85898-081-X. - Volume 28 Issue 1 - James A. Jaffe

Historians of religion and society are often confronted with the difficult task of defining the distinctive characteristics of the various adherents of Church and chapel. Certainly, one of the most useful as well as the most frequently employed analytical tools in this endeavour has been the correlation of occupation to religious preference.1 While...

CampbellAlan, FishmanNina, and HowellDavid, editors. Miners, Unions and Politics, 1910–47. Aldershot, U.K.: Scolar Press; distributed by Ashgate Publishing Company, Brookfield, Vt. 1996. Pp. xii, 307. $67.95. ISBN 1-85928-269-5. - Volume 29 Issue 1 - James Jaffe

LevineDavid and WrightsonKeith, The Making of an Industrial Society: Whickham 1560–1765. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. xxi + 456 pp. - Volume 43 - James Jaffe

LaybournKeith. Britain on the Breadline: A Social and Political History of Britain Between the Wars. Wolfeboro Falls, N.H.: Alan Sutton. 1990. Pp. x, 222. $32.00. - Volume 23 Issue 4 - James A. Jaffe

SchneerJonathan, Labour's Conscience: The Labour Left, 1945–1951, Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1988. xiii + 249 pp. WeilerPeter, British Labour and the Cold War, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1988. ix + 431 pp. - Volume 38 - James Jaffe

The role of evangelical religion in the social history of the English working class has been an area of both bewildering theories and un-founded generalizations. The problem, of course, was given a degree of notoriety by Elie Halévy who, according to the received interpretation, claimed that the revolutionary fervor characteristic of the Continenta...

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Columbia University, 1984. Includes bibliographical references (p. 314-329). Photocopy.