ISBN:
9781000559798
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (489 pages)
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DDC:
305.5620941
Keywords:
Working class-Great Britain-History-19th century
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Electronic books
Abstract:
This four volume primary resource collection is the most comprehensive of its kind and includes a multitude of sources that allows the user to chart the squalor, the noise, the conflict, the aspiration and the diversity of the working-class experience up to the outbreak of the First World War.
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: Working Conditions -- F. Place, Hand Loom Weavers and Factory Workers: A Letter to James Turner, Cotton Spinner (1835) -- 'A Manchester Operative' [J. Leach], Stubborn Facts from the Factories (1844), excerpt -- W. Jones, 'Unhealthy Employments', New Monthly Magazine (1856) -- [Anon.], 'Birmingham Factory Children', Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art (1865) -- J. G. Eccarius, The Hours of Labour (1872), excerpts -- G. Phillips Bevan, Industrial Classes and Industrial Statistics (1876), excerpts -- R. Rowe, How Our Working People Live (1882), excerpts -- British Weekly Commissioners, Toilers in London -- or, Inquiries Concerning Female Labour in the Metropolis (1889), excerpts -- J. T. Arlidge, The Hygiene Diseases and Mortality of Occupations (1892), excerpts -- F. Merttens, 'The Hours and Cost of Labour in the Cotton Industry at Home and Abroad', Transactions of the Manchester Statistical Society (1893-4), excerpts -- M. H. Irwin, 'The Problem of Home Work', Westminster Review (1897) -- B. S. Knollys, 'A Factory Girl's Day', Belgravia: A London Magazine (1897) -- E. F. Hogg, 'The Fur-Pullers of South London', Nineteenth Century (1897) -- H. J. Tennant, 'Dangerous Trades', Fortnightly Review (1899) -- A. Russell, 'Four Days in a Factory', Contemporary Review (1903) -- C. Smith, 'Dangerous Trades', Economic Review (1905) -- C. V. Butler, Social Conditions in Oxford (1912), excerpts -- Part II: Skill, Gender and Age Distinctions -- 'C. North' [ J. Wilson], 'The Factory System', Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1833), excerpts -- 'D. S.' [T. Southwood Smith], 'The Factories', London and Westminster Review (1836), excerpt -- [J. D. Milne], Industrial and Social Position of Women in the Middle and Lower Ranks (1857), excerpts.
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