The Industrial Revolution and work in nineteenth-century Europe /
[Book]
edited by Lenard R. Berlanstein.
New York :
Routledge,
1992.
xvi, 176 pages ;
23 cm
Rewriting histories
Includes bibliographical references.
The present and the past in the English Industrial Revolution, 1880-1980 / David Cannadine -- Mechanization and hand labour in industrializing Britain / Raphael Samuel -- Social change in modern Europe : the big picture / Charles Tilly -- Women's work and industrialization / Theresa McBride -- Patterns of proletarianization / Christopher H. Johnson -- Drink and industrial discipline in nineteenth-century Germany / James S. Roberts -- The limits of labour protest / Peter N. Stearns -- Uneven development, the autonomy of politics and the radicalization of workers / William H. Sewell, Jr. -- On language, gender and working-class history / Joan Wallach Scott.
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A generation of labour history, highlighted in this volume, has revealed the inadequacies of the Industrial Revolution as a way of conceptualizing economic change. This volume brings the debate on working-class formation up-to-date.
£35.00 : CIP entry (Oct.)
Industrial Revolution and work in nineteenth-century Europe.