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Before the Luddites: Custom, Community and Machinery in the English Woollen Industry, 1776–1809
Adrian Randall
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Hardback. A study of the early Industrial Revolution in the English woollen cloth making industry. Num Pages: 340 pages, 10 half-tones, 11 tables, 8 line diagrams, bibliography, index, lists. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JF; 3JH; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 204 x 159 x 22. Weight in Grams: 670.
Before the Luddites is a study of the early Industrial Revolution in the English woollen cloth-making industry in the West of England and Yorkshire which concentrates upon the social background of and response to change. It is particularly concerned to explain the reasons for and the effect of Luddism. This book argues that resistance to machinery had a long history before the Luddite disturbances of 1811–12 and that this response to change sprang from a community culture which was deep-rooted and hostile to the values of economic individualism embodied by the new economy and to laissez-faire.
Before the Luddites is a study of the early Industrial Revolution in the English woollen cloth-making industry in the West of England and Yorkshire which concentrates upon the social background of and response to change. It is particularly concerned to explain the reasons for and the effect of Luddism. This book argues that resistance to machinery had a long history before the Luddite disturbances of 1811–12 and that this response to change sprang from a community culture which was deep-rooted and hostile to the values of economic individualism embodied by the new economy and to laissez-faire.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
340
Condition
New
Number of Pages
340
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521390422
SKU
V9780521390422
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