ISBN:
9780415070539
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (202 p)
Series Statement:
Rewriting Histories
Parallel Title:
Print version The Industrial Revolution and Work in Nineteenth Century Europe
DDC:
305.5/62/09409034
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
The Industrial Revolution is a central concept in conventional understandings of the modern world, and as such is a core topic on many history courses. It is therefore difficult for students to see it as anything other than an objective description of a crucial turning-point, yet a generation of social and labour history has revealed the inadequacies of the Industrial Revolution as a way of conceptualizing economic change. This book provides students with access to recent upheavals in scholarly debate by bringing a selection of previously published articles, by leading scholars and teachers, t
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Contents; Editor's preface; General introduction; THE PRESENT AND THE PAST IN THE ENGLISH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION, 1880 1980; MECHANIZATION AND HAND LABOUR IN INDUSTRIALIZING BRITAIN; SOCIAL CHANGE IN MODERN EUROPE: THE BIG PICTURE; WOMEN'S WORK AND INDUSTRIALIZATION; PATTERNS OF PROLETARIANIZATION; DRINK AND INDUSTRIAL DISCIPLINE IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY GERMANY; THE LIMITS OF LABOUR PROTEST; UNEVEN DEVELOPMENT, THE AUTONOMY OF POLITICS AND THE RADICALIZATION OF WORKERS; ON LANGUAGE, GENDER AND WORKING-CLASS HISTORY; Suggestions for further reading
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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