264 Pages
by
Routledge
268 Pages
by
Routledge
264 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 1966, this revealing study looks closely into the lives of the men, women and children working in mines, workshops, factories and farms during the industrial revolution. It investigates the inventors whose new machines made the industrial revolution possible, and reflects on the new type of employer whose enterprise and energy in linking machine and labour power formed a new... Read more
1. Making, buying and selling
2. The domestic industries
3. A new method of transport
4. The new machines
Children in factories, the Apprentice system
Model Employers
New Communities
The Struggle for Legal Protection
Harsh Employers and Bad Conditions
Free-Labour Children
5. The giant, steam
6. Men of iron
7. Farms and farmworkers
8. The fight for reform
9. An end and a beginning
Biography
Davies, Stella
