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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 conceptualizing economic change. This book provides students with access to recent upheavals in scholarly debate by bringing a selection of previously published articles, by leading scholars and teachers, together in one volume, accompanied by explanatory notes. The editor's introduction also provides a synthesis and overview of the topic. As the revision of historical thought is a continual process, this volume seeks to bring the reinterpretation of such debates as working-class formation up to the present by introducing post-structuralist and feminist perspectives.
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THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION AND WORK IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY EUROPE
REWRITING HISTORIES Series editor: Jack R.Censer SOCIETY AND CULTURE IN THE SLAVE SOUTH Edited by J.William Harris GENDER AND AMERICAN HISTORY SINCE 1890 Edited by Barbara Melosh ATLANTIC AMERICAN SOCIETIES From Columbus through Abolition Edited by J.R.Neill and Alan Karras NAZISM AND GERMAN SOCIETY 1933–1945 Edited by David Crew DIVERSITY AND UNITY IN EARLY NORTH AMERICA Edited by P.Morgan
THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION AND WORK IN NINETEENTHCENTURY EUROPE Edited by Lenard R.Berlanstein
London and New York
First published 1992 by Routledge 11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2005. “To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk.” Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge a division of Routledge,Chapman and Hall Inc. 29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001 Selection and editorial matter © 1992 Lenard R.Berlanstein Individual contributions © 1992 individual contributors All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information system or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication Data The Industrial Revolution and work in nineteenth-century Europe/ edited by Lenard R.Berlanstein p. cm.—(Rewriting histories) Includes bibliographical references. 1. Europe—Industries—History—19th century. 2. Europe— Economic conditions—19th century. 3. Working class—Europe— History—19th century. I. Berlanstein, Lenard R. II. Series HC240.I533 1992 305.5 ′62′0940934–dc 20 91–45629 ISBN 0-203-41591-4 Master e-book ISBN
ISBN 0-203-72415-1 (Adobe eReader Format) ISBN 0-415-07052-X (Print Edition) ISBN0-415-07053-8(pbk)
CONTENTS
Editor’s preface General introduction
vii x
Part I Rethinking the Industrial Revolution 1
THE PRESENT AND THE PAST IN THE ENGLISH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION, 1880–1980 David Cannadine
2
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MECHANIZATION AND HAND LABOUR IN INDUSTRIALIZING BRITAIN Raphael Samuel
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SOCIAL CHANGE IN MODERN EUROPE: THE BIG PICTURE Charles Tilly
46
Part II Work experiences and protest 4
WOMEN’S WORK AND INDUSTRIALIZATION Theresa McBride
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5
PATTERNS OF PROLETARIANIZATION Christopher H.Johnson
84
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DRINK AND INDUSTRIAL DISCIPLINE IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY GERMAN