The Birth of Industrial Britain: 1750-1850: Seminar Studies
Autor Kenneth Morganen Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 iun 2011
The Birth of Industrial Britain examines the impact of early industrialisation on British society in the century before 1850, coinciding with Britain’s transition from a late pre-industrial economy to one based on industrialisation and urbanisation.
This fully revised and updated second edition provides a comprehensive range of pedagogical material to support the text, including a Glossary of terms, people and parliamentary acts, new primary source documents and a brand new Chronology and ‘Who’s Who’ section. The Birth of Industrial Britain provides an essential up-to-date synthesis of the impact of the Industrial Revolution on British society for students at all levels.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781408230954
ISBN-10: 140823095X
Pagini: 216
Dimensiuni: 174 x 246 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.46 kg
Ediția:Revizuită
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Seminar Studies
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 140823095X
Pagini: 216
Dimensiuni: 174 x 246 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.46 kg
Ediția:Revizuită
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Seminar Studies
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Cuprins
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
4. RELIGION AND SOCIETY
The 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
The Implementation of the New Poor Law
The 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
4. Festivals, holidays and local communities
5. Two family budgets, 1794
6. Pauperism and public health, 1842
7. Annual leverage price of British wheat per quarter, 1801–51
8. Average weekly wages in some industrial, 1849–51
9. Religion and class, 1849
10. The visitation of Chesterfield, 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
16. The duties of an assistant overseer of the poor, 1832
17. 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
26. The Chartist land plan
27. Chartism and a trial for sedition
28. Attitudes towards the Game Laws
29. Old Bailey proceedings, 1764
30. The state of the prisons in England and Wales, 1777
References
Further Reading
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
4. RELIGION AND SOCIETY
The 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
The Implementation of the New Poor Law
The 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
4. Festivals, holidays and local communities
5. Two family budgets, 1794
6. Pauperism and public health, 1842
7. Annual leverage price of British wheat per quarter, 1801–51
8. Average weekly wages in some industrial, 1849–51
9. Religion and class, 1849
10. The visitation of Chesterfield, 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
16. The duties of an assistant overseer of the poor, 1832
17. 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
26. The Chartist land plan
27. Chartism and a trial for sedition
28. Attitudes towards the Game Laws
29. Old Bailey proceedings, 1764
30. The state of the prisons in England and Wales, 1777
References
Further Reading
Descriere
The Industrial Revolution had a profound and lasting effect on socioeconomic and cultural conditions in Britain.
The Birth of Industrial Britain examines the impact of early industrialisation on British society in the century before 1850, coinciding with Britain’s transition from a late pre-industrial economy to one based on industrialisation and urbanisation.
Written in a clear and accessible manner, the book examines the following key topics:
The Birth of Industrial Britain examines the impact of early industrialisation on British society in the century before 1850, coinciding with Britain’s transition from a late pre-industrial economy to one based on industrialisation and urbanisation.
Written in a clear and accessible manner, the book examines the following key topics:
- work and leisure
- living and health standards
- religion and society
- education
- the poor laws
- popular protest
- crime, justice and the law