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Dutch literature --- Prostitutie --- Prostitution --- Secke, Jacques --- Fortune hunters --- Secke, Jacky --- Gigolos --- Gold diggers --- Persons

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This study of canal construction workers between 1780 and 1860 challenges labour history's focus on skilled craftsmen and the model of working-class culture it generated. Canallers, part of the mass of unskilled labour thrown up by industrial capitalism, had an experience that differed in many ways from artisans. Once on the labour market, they were wholly alienated, more fully exploited, worse off economically and socially fragmented. Their struggle as members of a class pivoted on material conditions not on skill and shop-floor control. Canal construction played a significant role in the rise of industrial capitalism by opening new markets, providing an army of workers and initiating the state-capital ties so important in later years. Increasingly dominated by Irish immigrants the workforce lived in shanty towns at the work site or in nearby cities, the setting for much vice and violence. These were not the vibrant working-class communities of later labour history and the situation deteriorated in the late 1830s as labour surplus caused massive unemployment and depressed wages. The history of canal workers traces another strand of the labour story, one where the absence of skills bred powerlessness that made common labour's engagement with capital markedly unequal.

Canal construction workers --- Canals --- Channels (Hydraulic engineering) --- Hydraulic structures --- Inland navigation --- Canal diggers --- Canal workers --- Construction workers --- History. --- Arts and Humanities --- History

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Leader of the Diggers, or True Levellers, whose colony was forced to disband in 1650, Gerrard Winstanley stands out from a century remarkable for its development in political thought as one of the most fecund and original of political writers. An acute and penetrating social critic with a passionate sense of justice, he worked out a collectivist theory which strikingly anticipates nineteenth- and twentieth-century socialism. He was the first modern European thinker to write in the vernacular advocating a communist society, and to call upon ordinary people to realize it. Winstanley published a number of pamphlets on the colony's behalf, among them a summary of his ideas, published in 1652 as The Law of Freedom in a Platform and dedicated to Oliver Cromwell. Christopher Hill's selection from Winstanley's many published pamphlets demonstrates the coherence and social relevance of Winstanley's philosophy, while it reveals his mastery of colloquial prose and his superb use of imagery.

Staatkunde --- Winstanley (Gerrard). --- Politique (Philosophie) --- Social Sciences --- Political Science --- Communism --- Levellers --- History --- Sources. --- Great Britain --- Diggers --- Radicals --- Bolshevism --- Communist movements --- Leninism --- Maoism --- Marxism --- Trotskyism --- Collectivism --- Totalitarianism --- Post-communism --- Socialism --- Village communities

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"Everything is free, do your own thing." Automne 1966, c'est avec ce mot d'ordre que les Diggers, un petit groupe de jeunes révoltés issus du théâtre, cherchent à radicaliser les enfants-fleurs en train de converger vers San Francisco. Référence faite aux paysans anglais du XVIIe siècle menés par Gerrard Winstanley qui s'étaient approprié des terres seigneuriales pour les cultiver en commun, les Diggers de San Francisco s'emparent du quartier de Haight Ashbury et y cultivent les graines d'une utopie en acte. Partisans du "théâtre guérilla", ils mettent en scène leur rêve d'une vie Libre et Gratuite, distribuent des repas, ouvrent des magasins gratuits, organisent de gigantesques fêtes..., et réclament la rue comme théâtre de leurs actions politiques critiques, subversives et festives. Entrés dans la légende de la contre-culture avec le flamboyant roman autobiographique d'Emmett Grogan, Ringolevio, les Diggers ont traversé les années 1960 comme un de ces "orgasmes de l'histoire", aussi intense que court, et pour lequel il est autant question de révolution que de plaisir... L' "aventure Hippie" a imprimé intensément l'existence de ceux qui l'ont vécue. L'intention du documentaire, réalisé en 1998, était d'enregistrer et (re)diffuser l'énergie qui trente ans après surgissait encore des histoires racontées par ceux que Céline D. et moi avions rencontrés pour faire le film. Dix ans plus tard, loin de l'impression des rencontres, ce livre qui accompagne le film aujourd'hui veut lui servir de postace : livrer plus de détails et récits biographiques, étayer les repères historiques, rendre plus lisible la parabole des Diggers. Les années 60, comme toute période révolutionnaire, connaissent plusieurs commencements et tant de fins, fourmillent de particuliers, s'éparpillent en possibles. Ce livre est donc une version parmi d'autres de cette page d'histoire contemporaine vue par le prisme très singulier des Diggers de San Francisco (note de l'auteur, Alice Gaillard, co-auteur du film "Les Diggers de San Francisco", pour lequel elle a rencontré la plupart des membres du groupe).

Counterculture --- Street theater --- Theater --- Popular music --- Hippies --- Communal living --- Contre-culture --- Théâtre de rue --- Théâtre --- Musique populaire --- Communes (Contre-culture) --- History --- Political aspects --- Histoire --- Aspect politique --- Diggers (San Francisco, Calif.) --- Haight-Ashbury (San Francisco, Calif.) --- San Francisco (Calif.) --- Social conditions --- Conditions sociales --- Activisme --- Performance, art

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This highly original study of the 'manic style' in enthusiastic writing of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries identifies a literary tradition and line of influence running from the radical visionary and prophetic writing of the Ranters and their fellow enthusiasts to the work of Jonathan Swift and Christopher Smart. Clement Hawes offers a counterweight to recent work which has addressed the subject of literature and madness from the viewpoint of contemporary psychological medicine, putting forward instead a stylistic and rhetorical analysis. He argues that the writings of dissident 'enthusiastic' groups are based in social antagonisms; and his account of the dominant culture's ridicule of enthusiastic writing (an attitude which persists in twentieth-century literary history and criticism) provides a powerful and daring critique of pervasive assumptions about madness and sanity in literature.

English literature --- Enthusiasm in literature. --- Literature and mental illness --- Literature and society --- English language --- Levellers. --- Ranters. --- Antinomianism --- Diggers --- Radicals --- Authors, Insane --- Mental illness and literature --- Poets, Insane --- History and criticism. --- History --- Rhetoric. --- Style. --- Smart, Christopher, --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature --- Germanic languages