Adrian Randall

Before the Luddites

Custom, Community and Machinery in the English Woollen Industry, 1776 1809

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Before the Luddites is a study of the early Industrial Revolution in the English woollen cloth-making industry in the West of England and Yorkshire which concentrates upon the social background of and response to change. It is particularly concerned to explain the reasons for and the effect of Luddism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 340
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 660g
• ISBN-13: 9780521390422
• ISBN-10: 0521390427
• Artikelnr.: 21508712

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
List of tables
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Introduction
1. Industrial organisation and culture
2. Machinery, the factory and labour displacement
3. The advent of machinery and community resistance
4. The cloth dressers, trade unionism and machinery
5. Industrial violence and machine breaking - the Wiltshire Outrages
6. Custom and law: the weavers' campaign
7. The political economy of machine breaking
8. machinery, custom and class
Conclusion
Bibliography
Name and place index
Subject index.