Life and Labour in England, 1700-1780
Author: Robert W. Malcolmson
Publisher:
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13:
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Reproducing Families
Author: David Levine
Publisher: CUP Archive
Published: 1987-08-27
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780521337854
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA review of the course of English population history from 1066 to the 1980s, with a particular focus on English family forms.
The Anxieties of Idleness
Author: Sarah Jordan
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780838755235
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Anxieties of Idleness: Idleness in Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Culture investigates the preoccupation with idleness that haunts the British eighteenth century. Jordan argues that as Great Britain began to define itself as a nation during this period, one important quality it claimed was industriousness. However, this claim was undermined and complicated by many factors, such as leisure's importance to class status. Thus idleness was a subject of intense anxiety. One result of this anxiety was an increased surveillance of the supposed idleness of those members of society with less power to wield: the working classes, the nonwhite races, and women. Jordan analyzes how the "idleness" of these groups is figured, in traditional literature and in extra-literary works. Idleness was also a concern for writers of the day, as writing became a money-earning profession. Jordan examines the lives and works of two writers especially obsessed with idleness, Samuel Johnson and William Cowper.
The Labouring Classes in Early Industrial England, 1750-1850
Author: John Rule
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-01-21
Total Pages: 419
ISBN-13: 1317871979
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the most comprehensive and up-to-date synthesis of current research on the social conditions, experiences and reactions of working people during the period 1750 - 1850.
The Experience of Labour in Eighteenth-Century Industry
Author: John Rule
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2024-09-18
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 1040112331
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally published in 1981, this book, unlike conventional textbooks concerning the Industrial Revolution, stresses the continuity of the labour experience in the 18th Century. Examining the organisation and structure of mining and manufacture in England, the author identifies the main kinds of workers: artisans, miners, journeymen and home-based outworkers. The book goes on to illustrate how the pattern of recrimination and counter-recrimination was a condition of the employer-worker relationship in traditional industries and argues that the values of these workers were the main determinants of the attitudes, expectations, responses and actions that took place in English manufacturing. Covering such important, but frequently neglected, areas of 18th Century industry as health, apprenticeship and industrial crime, this study concludes by questioning whether a distinctive industrial culture existed during the period and how far a class consciousness can be regarded as having emerged.
Longman Handbook to Modern British History 1714 - 2001
Author: Chris Cook
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-07-10
Total Pages: 521
ISBN-13: 1317875249
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis compact and accessible reference work provides all the essential facts and figures about major aspects of modern British history from the death of Queen Anne to the end of the 1990s. The Longman Handbook of Modern British History has been extended to include a fully-revised bibliography (reflecting the wealth of newly published material in recent years), the new statistics on social and economic history and an expanded glossary of terms. The political chronologies have been revised to include the electoral defeat of John Major and the record of New Labour in office. Designed for the student and general reader, this highly-successful handbook provides a wealth of varied data within the confines of a single volume.
Child Workers in England, 1780–1820
Author: Katrina Honeyman
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-05-23
Total Pages: 355
ISBN-13: 1317167953
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe use of child workers was widespread in textile manufacturing by the late eighteenth century. A particularly vital supply of child workers was via the parish apprenticeship trade, whereby pauper children could move from the 'care' of poor law officialdom to the 'care' of early industrial textile entrepreneurs. This study is the first to examine in detail both the process and experience of parish factory apprenticeship, and to illuminate the role played by children in early industrial expansion. It challenges prevailing notions of exploitation which permeate historical discussion of the early labour force and questions both the readiness with which parishes 'offloaded' large numbers of their poor children to distant factories, and the harsh discipline assumed to have been universal among early factory masters. Finally the author explores the way in which parish apprentices were used to construct a gendered labour force. Dr Honeyman's book is a major contribution to studies in child labour and to the broader social, economic, and business history of the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries.
Crime and Punishment in Eighteenth Century England
Author: Frank McLynn
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-06-17
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 1136093087
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMcLynn provides the first comprehensive view of crime and its consequences in the eighteenth century: why was England notorious for violence? Why did the death penalty prove no deterrent? Was it a crude means of redistributing wealth?
A History of the Peoples of the British Isles
Author: Thomas Heyck
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-09-27
Total Pages: 493
ISBN-13: 1134415214
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe three volumes of A History of the Peoples of the British Isles weave together the histories of England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales and their peoples. The authors trace the course of social, economic, cultural and political history from prehistoric times to the present, analyzing the relationships, differences and similarities of the four areas. Volume II focuses on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and its main themes are:* the formation of the British nation-state* the spread of English cultural influence and political power throughout the Briti.
Crime and Law in England, 1750–1840
Author: Peter King
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006-12-07
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9781139459495
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow was law made in England in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries? Through detailed studies of what the courts actually did, Peter King argues that parliament and the Westminster courts played a less important role in the process of law making than is usually assumed. Justice was often remade from the margins by magistrates, judges and others at the local level. His book also focuses on four specific themes - gender, youth, violent crime and the attack on customary rights. In doing so it highlights a variety of important changes - the relatively lenient treatment meted out to women by the late eighteenth century, the early development of the juvenile reformatory in England before 1825, i.e. before similar changes on the continent or in America, and the growing intolerance of the courts towards everyday violence. This study is invaluable reading to anyone interested in British political and legal history.
