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1 online resource (xxxv, 167 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps |
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Seminar studies in history |
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Seminar studies in history.
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| Contents |
Cover; Original Title; Title; Copyright; Introduction to the Series; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Who's who; Glossary; Maps; PART ONE INTRODUCTION; 1 THE BIRTH OF INDUSTRIAL BRITAIN; PART TWO ANALYSIS; 2 WORK AND LEISURE; Agriculture; Domestic industry and the factory; Women's work; Child labour; Legislation on labour practices; Leisure and recreation; 3 LIVING AND HEALTH STANDARDS; The demographic context; Housing and the environment; Real wages; Regional and occupational wage variations; Female and child labour, family budgets and entitlements; Height and health |
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4 RELIGION AND SOCIETYThe Church of England; The rise of evangelicalism; Methodism and society; 5 POPULAR EDUCATION; Elementary schools; Sunday schools; Voluntary schools and monitorial education; State provision for schools; Factory schools; Poor law schools; Literacy and the curriculum; Social control and elementary education; Adult education; 6 THE OLD AND NEW POOR LAWS; The operation of the Old Poor Law; The Old Poor Law under pressure, 1793-1832; Changing views on the Old Poor Law; The Royal Commission on the Poor Law, 1832; The Poor Law Amendment Act, 1834 |
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The implementation of the New Poor LawThe Poor Law in Scotland; 7 POPULAR PROTEST; Grain riots and the moral economy of the crowd; Wilkes and Liberty; Revolutionary protest?; The Luddites; From Luddism to the Reform Bill riots; Chartism; 8 CRIME, JUSTICE AND PUNISHMENT; The operation of the law; Prosecution; Enforcing the law; Physical punishments; Convict transportation; Prisons; PART THREE ASSESSMENT; 9 CONCLUSION; PART FOUR DOCUMENTS; 1 New Lanark, a model factory, 1784-91; 2 Occupations in 1851; 3 Richard Oastler on child labour in Yorkshire mills |
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4 Festivals, holidays and local communities5 Two family budgets, 1794; 6 Pauperism and public health, 1842; 7 Annual average price of British wheat per quarter, 1801-51; 8 Average weekly wages in some industrial occupations, 1849-51; 9 Religion and class, 1849; 10 The visitation of Chesterfield, Derbyshire, 1751; 11 A Methodist class meeting, c.1822; 12 Samuel Bamford on Sunday schools; 13 Work and discipline in the monitorial school, 1810; 14 A view of workhouse education, 1838; 15 Address at the opening of the London Mechanics' Institution, 10 February 1824 |
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16 The duties of an assistant overseer of the poor, 183217 Settlement examination and removal order, Wiltshire, 1766; 18 The Speenhamland decision, 6 May 1795; 19 A pauper letter of 1826; 20 The principle of 'less eligibility'; 21 A Cornish bread riot, 1773; 22 Parliament against trade unionism, 1799; 23 A warning from Ned Ludd, 1812; 24 The Peterloo Massacre, 1819; 25 The 'Swing' protests in Norfolk, 1830; 26 The Chartist land plan; 27 Chartism and a trial for sedition, 1840; 28 Attitudes towards the Game Laws; 29 Old Bailey Proceedings, 1764 |
| Summary |
This volume focuses on the social impact of early industrialization on the population and looks at living standards, work and leisure, crime and the law, religion, education, the Poor Law and popular protest |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 160-162) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Industrialization -- Great Britain -- History
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Industrial revolution -- Great Britain -- History
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Industries -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
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Industries -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- General.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Reference.
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Economic history
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Industrial revolution
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Industrialization
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Industries
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Industrialismen -- historia -- Storbritannien.
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Industrialisering -- historia -- sociala aspekter -- Storbritannien.
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| SUBJECT |
Great Britain -- Economic conditions -- 1760-1860.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056674
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| Subject |
Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317862093 |
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1317862090 |
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1315833514 |
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9781315833514 |
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9781317862109 |
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1317862104 |
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