THE FACTORY QUESTION AND INDUSTRIAL ENGLAND 1830-1860
Written by Robert Gray
Published by Cambridge University Press
in 2002
ISBN: 0521892929
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- INDUSTRY
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- HISTORY
- HISTORY (BRITISH)
THE FACTORY QUESTION AND INDUSTRIAL ENGLAND 1830-1860
Written by Robert Gray.
Stock no. 2126467
1st PB.
2002.
Softcover.
Very good condition.
The combination of regional, cultural and textual analysis makes this book a coherent and original contribution to the study of industrial Britain in the nineteenth century. Card wraps. 253 pages. ISBN: 0521892929. Some pencil marks, mostly to margins (some erased pencil writing inside front cover).
Front cover
Contents
- Part 1 - Voices in debate, c.1830-1850
- Factory Slavery
- Humanitarian opinion and rhetorics of reform
- Popular common sense, official enquiry and the state
- The responsibilities of employers
- The factory imagined
- Part 2 - Factory regulation, c. 1840-1860
- Enforcement, resistance and compliance
- The ten-hour day
- A reformed factory system?