Manufacture in Town and Country Before the Factory - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521893593 ISBN 13: 9780521893596

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2010

Synopsis

The internal organisation of production before the development of the factory system is still shrouded in historical mystery. How goods were made before machines, how work was organised before the factory system, how artisans and labourers perceived and lived their work are questions to which we have only hesitant and tentative answers. Hitherto, historians have been too concerned with the emerging features of the modern industrial capitalist order to seek to understand how another and different economy and community worked in its own terms. The essays in this book are intended to begin to remedy this neglect.

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Review:

'... this wide-ranging and important collection ... performs a considerable service in drawing together essays which look at the complexity and intellectual vitality of a radical tradition.' The Welsh History Review '... a collection of essays which adds finesse and diversity to our understanding of British progressivism in a formative period ...'. Michael Freeden, Labour History Review

Book Description:

The internal organisation of production before the development of the factory system is still shrouded in historical mystery. How goods were made before machines, how work was organised before the factory system, are questions to which we have only hesitant and tentative answers. The essays in this book are intended to begin to remedy this neglect.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0521893593
• ISBN 13: 9780521893596
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224
• Editor: Berg Maxine