Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xx, 915 pages)
ISBN:
9789004251793
Series Statement:
Historical materialism book series v. 49
Content:
Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- 1. The Pre-History of Industry -- 2. Parliament and Revolution -- 3. Agrarian Capitalism: The Key to Britain’s Rise to Power -- 4. An Empire in Crisis -- 5. Harvesting the Agrarian Revolution -- 6. Technology and History -- 7. The Social Origins of the Factory -- 8. Factories and Machinery -- 9. Capital and Industry -- 10. Custom and Law -- 11. Rebellion and Reaction -- 12. Class and the State -- 13. Reform and the Oligarchy -- 14. Chartists and Liberals -- Conclusion -- Epilogue -- References -- Index.
Content:
In Rethinking the Industrial Revolution: Five Centuries of Transition from Agrarian to Industrial Capitalism in England , Michael Andrew Žmolek offers the first in-depth study of the evolution of English manufacturing from the feudal and early modern periods within the context of the development of agrarian capitalism. With an emphasis on the relationship between Parliament and working Britons, this work challenges readers to 'rethink' the common perception of the role of the state in the first industrial revolution as essentially passive. The work chronicles how a long train of struggles led by artisans resisting efforts by employers to transform production along capitalist lines, prompted employers to appeal to the state to suppress this resistance by coercion
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004219878
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Zmolek, Michael Andrew Rethinking the industrial revolution ISBN 9789004219878
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1163/9789004251793
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