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Gareth Stedman Jones FBA (born 17 December 1942) is an English academic and historian. [1] As Professor of the History of Ideas at Queen Mary, University of London, he deals particularly with working-class history and Marxism. [2]
Historians date the industrial revolution in the cotton textile industry to the second half of the 18th century. But if we wish to find evidence of its direct social impact upon the labour force, we must look much later. The transition from ‘formal’ to ‘real’ capitalist control over production was a long and bitter process—and even in ...
Gareth Stedman Jones is Director of the Centre for History and Economics, a Life Fellow of King's College, Cambridge and Professor Emeritus of the History of Ideas at Queen Mary University of London.
My aim has been to situate such thought in its particular historical context. I have written on the emergence of social security as solution to problems of poverty from the 1790’s to the 20th century, on the origins of Utopian Socialism, and on the genesis of the Communist Manifesto.
Stedman Jones moves through a series of 'social' explanations, arguing that this mode of explanation, in his own work and that of others, is deficient in its conception of language.
The positivistic adherence to the visible and immediately verifiable ‘facts’ of the past was reinforced by an almost unquestioned acceptance of the basic tenets of 19th-century English liberalism. Individuals were discrete, autonomous, and thus morally accountable for their actions.
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Jun 1, 2017 · Stedman Jones’ careful reconstruction of Marx’s philosophical, political, and economic thought in the context of the new social thought of the early nineteenth century, however, reveals aspects of Marx that returned to challenge official Marxism.
