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Author : Henry Ashworth
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Preston Strike, an Enquiry Into Its Causes and Consequences written by Henry Ashworth and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : H. I. Dutton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521236201
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (362 download)
Download or read book Ten Per Cent and No Surrender written by H. I. Dutton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a study of industrial unrest in the cotton industry at a time when the economy was on the threshold of mid-Victorian prosperity, and when Chartism was still much more than a memory. The town of Preston was the crucial battlefield, and here the masters and men fought out a bitter trial of strength. The strike of 1853-54 closed the Preston cotton industry for seven months, and disrupted production in many other towns in Lancashire. Against the implacable opposition of the masters, the strikers toured the country to organize support, and raised £100,000 in subscriptions from their fellow operatives. The dispute featured prominently in the national and provincial press, and the weavers' delegates, notably George Cowell and Mortimer Grimshaw, became celebrities overnight. After five months, the employers brought in blackleg labour, and when the detested `knobsticks' failed to break the strike they had the operatives' leaders arrested. These moves did not deter the cotton workers, who were forced back to work only when their financial reserves were exhausted. Their campaign ended defiantly, as it had begun, with cries of `Ten Per Cent still, and no surrender'. This book is their story.
Author : Carol E. Morgan
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415239295
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (392 download)
Download or read book Women Workers and Gender Identities, 1835-1913 written by Carol E. Morgan and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the experiences of women workers in the cotton and small metals industries and the discourses surrounding their labour, this book demonstrates how ideas of womanhood often clashed with the harsh realities of working-class life.
Author : Janet Greenlees
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351936735
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Female Labour Power: Women Workers’ Influence on Business Practices in the British and American Cotton Industries, 1780–1860 written by Janet Greenlees and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Britain and America were the first two countries with mechanised cotton manufacturing industries, the first major factory systems of production and the first major employers of women outside of the domestic environment. The combination of being new wage earners in the first trans-national industry and their public prominence as workers makes these women's role as employees significant; they set the early standard for women as waged labour, to which later female workers were compared. This book analyses how women workers influenced patterns of industrial organization and offers a new perspective on relationships between gender and work and on industrial development. The primary theme of the study is the attempt to control the work process through co-operation, coercion and conflict between women workers, their male counterparts and manufacturers. Drawing upon examples of women's subversive activities and attitudes toward the discourses of labour, the book emphasizes the variety of women's work experiences. By using this diversity of experience in a comparative way, the book reaches conclusions that challenge a variety of historical concepts, including separate spheres of influence for men and women and related economic theories, for example that women were passive players in the workplace, evolutionary theories with respect to industrial development, and business culture within and between the two industries. Overall it provides the fresh approach that highlights and explains women's agency as operatives and paid workers during industrialization.
Author : Richard Biernacki
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520377613
Total Pages : 585 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)
Download or read book The Fabrication of Labor written by Richard Biernacki and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2024-07-26 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monumental study demonstrates the power of culture to define the meaning of labor. Drawing on massive archival evidence from Britain and Germany, as well as historical evidence from France and Italy, The Fabrication of Labor shows how the very nature of labor as a commodity differed fundamentally in different national contexts. A detailed comparative study of German and British wool textile mills reveals a basic difference in the way labor was understood, even though these industries developed in the same period, used similar machines, and competed in similar markets. These divergent definitions of the essential character of labor as a commodity influenced the entire industrial phenomenon, affecting experiences of industrial work, methods of remuneration, disciplinary techniques, forms of collective action, and even industrial architecture. Starting from a rigorous analysis of detailed archival materials, this study broadens out to analyze the contrasting developmental pathways to wage labor in Western Europe and offers a startling reinterpretation of theories of political economy put forward by Adam Smith and Karl Marx. In his brilliant cross-national study, Richard Biernacki profoundly reorients the analysis of how culture constitutes the very categories of economic life. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1996.
Author : J. A. Jowitt
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429828438
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)
Download or read book Employers and Labour in the English Textile Industries, 1850-1939 written by J. A. Jowitt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1988. This collection of essays examines aspects of labour and industrial relations history in the textiles sector of Northern England during the mature phase of industrialisation before World War One and the period of retrenchment during the interwar economic recession. There are chapters on wool, worsted, silk, cotton spinning and weaving, and cotton finishing. The volume includes contributions by historians interested in employers’ organisations and management strategies, labour, trade union and women’s history. As such it provides a broader framework in which relationships between capital and labour are analysed. The book also incorporates some of the recent research on particularly neglected areas of social history, most notably on women workers and on the industrial relations policies of employers in textiles.
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Total Pages : 708 pages
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Download or read book The Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 748 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Gentleman's Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "Gentleman's magazine" section is a digest of selections from the weekly press; the "(Trader's) monthly intelligencer" section consists of news (foreign and domestic), vital statistics, a register of the month's new publications, and a calendar of forthcoming trade fairs.
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Total Pages : 714 pages
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Download or read book The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for the Year ... written by and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Manchester Public Libraries (Manchester, England)
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Total Pages : 1670 pages
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Download or read book Catalogue of the Books in the Manchester Free Library written by Manchester Public Libraries (Manchester, England) and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 1670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Catalogue ... has been prepared with a view to accomplish two objects. One, to offer an inventory of all the books on the shelves of the Reference Department of the Manchester Free Library: the other, to supply ... a ready Key both to the subjects of the books, and to the names of the authors." - v. 1, the compiler to the reader.
Author : Public Free Libraries (Manchester)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 996 pages
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Download or read book Catalogue of the Books in the Manchester Public Free Library, Reference Department. Prepared by A. Crestadoro. (Vol. II. Comprising the Additions from 1864 to 1879.) [With the "Index of Names and Subjects".] written by Public Free Libraries (Manchester) and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 996 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Neil J. Smelser
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136602119
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (366 download)
Download or read book Social Change in the Industrial Revolution written by Neil J. Smelser and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2005. The following study analyses several sequences of differentiation and a attempt to apply social theory to history. Such an analysis naturally calls for two components: (1) a segment of social theory; and (2) an empirical instance of change. For the first the author has selected a model of social change from a developing general theory of action; for the second, the British industrial revolution between 1770 and 1840. From this large revolution is the isolated the growth of the cotton industry and the transformation of the family structure of its working classes.
Author : Taylor Peter F. Taylor
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474473091
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)
Download or read book Popular Politics in Early Industrial Britain written by Taylor Peter F. Taylor and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-08 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of popular politics in pre-industrial Britain.
Author : Anthony Howe
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191572551
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book The Letters of Richard Cobden written by Anthony Howe and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-02-25 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Letters of Richard Cobden (1804-65) aims in four printed volumes to provide the first critical edition of Cobden's letters, publishing the complete text in as near the original form as possible, accompanied by full scholarly apparatus, together with an introduction to each volume re-assessing Cobden's importance in their light. As a whole these volumes will make available a unique source of the understanding of British liberalism in its European and international contexts, throwing new light on issues such as the repeal of the Corn Laws, British radical movements, the Crimean War, the Indian Mutiny, Anglo-French relations, and the American Civil War. The second volume, drawing on over fifty archives world-wide, follows the career of Richard Cobden from that of the 'Manchester Manufacturer' who had gained celebrity in the repeal of the Corn Laws in 1846 to that of the dominant Radical leader on the British political scene between 1848 and 1853, widely considered by contemporaries equal in importance to the leaders of the Whig and Conservative parties. Cobden in this period was concerned with an inter-connected series of movements which sought in different ways to reduce aristocratic power in Victorian Britain. These included the reform of parliament (especially through the secret ballot), of landownership, of government finances, of the British empire, as well as the introduction of state education. At the same time we see the emergence of Cobden 'the International Man', with a cosmopolitan following, playing a pivotal role in the global peace movement, and articulating a wide-ranging critique of British foreign policy, with regard to the dangers of French invasion, the aftermath of the Revolutions of 1848, British expansionism in India, and the ramifications of the Eastern Question as Britain drifted towards war in the Crimea. Although in his own day, Cobden's radical ideas increasingly separated him from many contemporaries, in the longer term they became a vital tributary of nineteenth-century British and international liberalism.
Author : Sir Sydney John Chapman
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The Lancashire Cotton Industry written by Sir Sydney John Chapman and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Various
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 0429784988
Total Pages : 13366 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)
Download or read book Routledge Library Editions: The Labour Movement written by Various and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-07-28 with total page 13366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This set of 44 volumes, originally published between 1924 and 1995, amalgamates a wide breadth of research on the Labour Movement, including labour union history, the early stages and development of the Labour Party, and studies on the working classes. This collection of books from some of the leading scholars in the field provides a comprehensive overview of the subject how it has evolved over time, and will be of particular interest to students of political history.
Author : James Christopher Scholes
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Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Bolton Bibliography, and Jottings of Book-lore written by James Christopher Scholes and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
