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The Experience of Labour in Eighteenth-Century Industry

The Experience of Labour in Eighteenth-Century Industry

Rule, John

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Work & Society

EconomicsLaborSocial Movements

ISBN10: 1032834587
ISBN13: 9781032834580
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Sep 18 2024
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.91
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

Originally published in 1981, this book, unlike conventional textbooks concerning the Industrial Revolution, stresses the continuity of the labour experience in the 18th Century. Examining the organisation and structure of mining and manufacture in England, the author identifies the main kinds of workers: artisans, miners, journeymen and home-based outworkers. The book goes on to illustrate how the pattern of recrimination and counter-recrimination was a condition of the employer-worker relationship in traditional industries and argues that the values of these workers were the main determinants of the attitudes, expectations, responses and actions that took place in English manufacturing. Covering such important, but frequently neglected, areas of 18th Century industry as health, apprenticeship and industrial crime, this study concludes by questioning whether a distinctive industrial culture existed during the period and how far a class consciousness can be regarded as having emerged.

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