The Factory Question and Industrial England, 1830-1860

ISBN-13: 9780521496599 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 268 str.

Robert Gray

Opis

This engaging study addresses the continuing controversy over industrialization, examining different perceptions of factories and factory work. Using varied sources such as sermons, medical treatises, fictional and visual representations, Robert Gray investigates the role of language in shaping the debate on factory reform, and relates conflicts over factory legislation to specific towns. The combination of regional, cultural and textual analysis makes this book an original contribution to the study of industrial Britain in the nineteenth century.

Recenzje

"...an important contribution to a series of ongoing debates over British industrial formation. ...it will be regarded as a path-breaking study. Gray has provided a rich picture of the linguistic complexities of the creation of new industrial indentities..." Martin Hewitt, Victorian Studies

Spis treści

Part I. Voices in a Debate, c.1830–1860: 1. Factory slavery; 2. Humanitarian opinion and rhetorics of reform; 3. Popular common sense, official enquiry and the state; 4. The responsibilities of employers; 5. The factory imagined; Part II. Factory Regulation, c.1840–1860: 6. Enforcement, resistance and compliance; 7. The ten-hour day; 8. A reformed factory system?; Conclusion.