1st Edition

Politics and Production in the Early Nineteenth Century

By Clive Behagg Copyright 1990
286 Pages
by Routledge

286 Pages
by Routledge

Politics and Production in the Early Nineteenth Century (1990) breaks new ground in understanding the culture of the workplace. It addresses debates in social history concerning the nature of the labour process under early capitalism and the language of politics, and it draws these debates together in a compelling way. It challenges the standard interpretation of the social relations of... Read more

1. Industrialisation and the Transformation of the Small Producer  2. Politics and Small-scale Production  3. ‘The Worst of Democracies’: the Internal Life of the Workplace  4. ‘Riding the Tiger’: Middle-class and Working-class Radicalism in the Reform Bill Campaign  5. The Early Chartist Experience

Biography

Clive Behagg