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THE FACTORY QUESTION AND INDUSTRIAL ENGLAND 1830-1860

by Robert Gray

Published by Cambridge University Press. 1st PB. 2002

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.

Some pencil marks, mostly to margins (some erased pencil writing inside front cover).

ISBN: 0521892929
Stock no. 2126467

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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?

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