1st Edition
The Industrial Revolution and Work in Nineteenth Century Europe
Edited By Lenard R. Berlanstein
Copyright 1992
196 Pages
by
Routledge
196 Pages
by
Routledge
196 Pages
by
Routledge
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The Industrial Revolution is a central concept in conventional understandings of the modern world, and as such is a core topic on many history courses. It is therefore difficult for students to see it as anything other than an objective description of a crucial turning-point, yet a generation of social and labour history has revealed the inadequacies of the Industrial Revolution as a way of... Read more
Editor's Preface, Jack R. Censer; General Introduction, Lenard R. Berlanstein; Part 1 Rethinking the Industrial Revolution, Lenard R. Berlanstein; Chapter 1 The Present and the Past in the English Industrial Revolution, 1880–1980, David Cannadine; Chapter 2 Mechanization and Hand Labour in Industrializing Britain, Raphael Samuel; Chapter 3 Social Change in Modern Europe: The Big Picture, Charles Tilly; Part 2 Work Experiences and Protest, Lenard R. Berlanstein; Chapter 4 Women's Work and Industrialization, Theresa McBride; Chapter 5 Patterns of Proletarianization, Christopher H. Johnson; Chapter 6 Drink and Industrial Discipline in Nineteenthcentury Germany, James S. Roberts; Part 3 The Making of a Working Class, Lenard R. Berlanstein; Chapter 7 The Limits of Labour Protest, Peter N. Stearns; Chapter 8 Uneven Development, the Autonomy of Politics and the Radicalization of Workers, William H. SewellJr; Chapter 9 On Language, Gender and Working-Class History, Joan Wallach Scott;
Biography
Lenard R. Berlanstein
