DOM KALB EXPANDING CLASS POWER AND EVERYDAY POLITICS IN INDUSTRIAL COMMUNITIES, THE NETHERLANDS, 1850-1950 Expanding Class A book in the series COMPARATIVE AND INTERNATIONAL WORKING-CLASS HISTORY General Editors Andrew Gordon Harvard University Daniel James Duke University Alexander Keyssar Duke University EXPANDING CLASS Power and Everyday Politics in Industrial Communities, The Netherlands, 1850 - 1950 Don Kalb Duke University Press Durham and London 1997 © 1997 Duke University Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper °° Designed by Cherie Westmoreland Typeset in Palatino with Frutiger display by Keystone Typesetting, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data appear on the last printed page of this book. Portions of an article by Don Kalb, "Moral Production, Class Capacities, and Communal Commotion: An Illustration from Central Brabant Shoemaking," Social History 16 (1991): 279-99, have been included in this book, by permission of the publisher, Routledge Ltd. Contents Preface vii Introduction 1 part ONE The Limits of Dominance and Deference: Power and Culture in Shoemaking Villages, 1900-1920 35 1 Communal Commotion: The Complexities of the Shoemakers Conflict in 1910 37 2 Solidary Logic or Civilizing Process? Workers, Priests, and Alcohol in Shoemaking Villages 60 part two The Enigma of Philipsism: Family and Acquiescence in an Electrical Boomtown, 1850-1950 79 3 Eindhoven and Its Context 81 4 The Making of a Flexible Industrial Territory 93 5 Cycles and Structures of Electrical Production, 1910-1930 139 6 The Culture of Philipsism 153 7 The Fruits of Flexible Familism 213 8 A Dumb Girl and an Epileptic Bricoleur: Clues on Culture and Class in Popular Memory and Narration 234 Epilogue: Pathways to Labor-Intensive Manufacturing 259 Notes 281 References 317 Index 333 Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2020 with funding from Duke University Libraries https://archive.org/details/expandingclass01kalb