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Book The Family Economy of the Working Classes in the Cotton Industry  1784 1833

Download or read book The Family Economy of the Working Classes in the Cotton Industry 1784 1833 written by Frances Collier and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1964 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: UK. Historical study of family budgets and family economy of cotton textile workers of the textile industry - child labour, the woman worker employed to work at home, cost of living, living conditions, family wages earnings, apprentices, the effect of industrialization, etc.

Book The Family Economic of the Working Classes in the Cotton Industry

Download or read book The Family Economic of the Working Classes in the Cotton Industry written by Frances Collier and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Family Economy of the Working Classes in the Cotton Industry  1784 1883

Download or read book The Family Economy of the Working Classes in the Cotton Industry 1784 1883 written by Frances Collier and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Working Class Girls in Nineteenth Century England

Download or read book Working Class Girls in Nineteenth Century England written by M. Gomersall and published by Springer. This book was released on 1997-02-24 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is concerned with the nineteenth-century education, family life and employment of working-class girls and women. Based on extensive local research, it also draws on evidence from social, labour and women's history in a wide-ranging analysis of the purposes and practices of girls' education within a variety of forms of schooling, both public and private.

Book The Struggle for the Breeches

Download or read book The Struggle for the Breeches written by Anna Clark and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1997-04-18 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In its analysis of gender and class relations and their political forms, in giving voice to the many who have left only a fleeting trace in the historical record, Clark's study is a pioneering classic. . . . It also has a salience for many of our present social and political dilemmas."—Leonore Davidoff, Editor, Gender and History "Deeply researched, scholarly, serious, important. This is a big book that develops a significant new line of inquiry on a classic story in modern history—the making of the English working class. Clark shows in great and persuasive detail how we might read this tale through the lens of gender."—Thomas Laqueur, author of Making Sex

Book Hard At Work In Factories And Mines

Download or read book Hard At Work In Factories And Mines written by Carolyn Tuttle and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-11-28 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children have worked for centuries and continue to work. The history of the economic development of Europe and North America includes numerous instances of child labor. Manufacturers in England, France, Belgium, Germany, and Prussia as well as the United States used child labor during the initial stages of industrialization. In addition, child labor prevails currently in many industries in the Third World. This book examines the explanations for child labor in an economic context. A model of the labor market for children is constructed using the new economics of the family framework to derive the supply of child labor and the traditional labor theory of marginal productivity to derive the demand for child labor. The model is placed into a historical context and is used to test the existing supply-and-demand-induced explanations for an increase in child labor during the British Industrial Revolution. Evidence on the extent of childrens employment, their specific tasks and trends in their wages from the textile industry and mining industry is used to support the argument that it was technological innovation which created a demand for child labor. Certain mechanical inventions and process innovations increased the demand for child labor in three ways: increasing number of assistants needed; increasing the substitutability between children and adults, and creating work situations that only children could fill. Specific innovations in the production of textiles and in the extraction of coal, copper and tin are highlighted to show how they favored the use of child workers over adult workers. The book concludes with a look at the current situations in developing countries where child labor is prevalent. Considerable insight is gained on the role of child labor in economic development when this historical model is applied to the contemporary situation.

Book Institutions  Innovation  and Industrialization

Download or read book Institutions Innovation and Industrialization written by Avner Greif and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-26 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together a group of leading economic historians to examine how institutions, innovation, and industrialization have determined the development of nations. Presented in honor of Joel Mokyr—arguably the preeminent economic historian of his generation—these wide-ranging essays address a host of core economic questions. What are the origins of markets? How do governments shape our economic fortunes? What role has entrepreneurship played in the rise and success of capitalism? Tackling these and other issues, the book looks at coercion and exchange in the markets of twelfth-century China, sovereign debt in the age of Philip II of Spain, the regulation of child labor in nineteenth-century Europe, meat provisioning in pre–Civil War New York, aircraft manufacturing before World War I, and more. The book also features an essay that surveys Mokyr's important contributions to the field of economic history, and an essay by Mokyr himself on the origins of the Industrial Revolution. In addition to the editors, the contributors are Gergely Baics, Hoyt Bleakley, Fabio Braggion, Joyce Burnette, Louis Cain, Mauricio Drelichman, Narly Dwarkasing, Joseph Ferrie, Noel Johnson, Eric Jones, Mark Koyama, Ralf Meisenzahl, Peter Meyer, Joel Mokyr, Lyndon Moore, Cormac Ó Gráda, Rick Szostak, Carolyn Tuttle, Karine van der Beek, Hans-Joachim Voth, and Simone Wegge.

Book Child Workers and Industrial Health in Britain  1780 1850

Download or read book Child Workers and Industrial Health in Britain 1780 1850 written by Peter Kirby and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2013 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive study of the occupational health of employed children within the broader context of social, industrial and environmental change between 1780 and 1850.

Book The Great Wave

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Hackett Fischer
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN : 9780195121216
  • Pages : 556 pages

Download or read book The Great Wave written by David Hackett Fischer and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1999 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fischer has examined price records in many nations, and finds that great waves of rising prices in the 13th-, 16th-, 18th-, and 20th centuries were all marked by price swings of increasing volatility, falling wages, a growing gap between rich and poor, and an increase in violent crime, family disintegration, and cultural despair. 109 graphs & charts. 7 maps.

Book A Cotton Enterprise  1795 1840

Download or read book A Cotton Enterprise 1795 1840 written by Clive Howard Lee and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1972 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Albion s People

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Rule
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2014-06-11
  • ISBN : 1317895932
  • Pages : 239 pages

Download or read book Albion s People written by John Rule and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second volume of John Rule's major two-volume portrait of Georgian England is a comprehensive and authoritative survey of eighteenth-century society, incorporating the exciting new research findings of recent years. It deals in turn with the upper class, `middling sort' and lower orders; with popular education, religion and culture; with standards of living in town and country; and with crime, punishment and protest. The book, which is as rich and varied as the age it explores, ends with an assessment of continuity and change across the century.

Book Policing the Factory

    Book Details:
  • Author : Barry Godfrey
  • Publisher : A&C Black
  • Release : 2013-02-28
  • ISBN : 1441152520
  • Pages : 225 pages

Download or read book Policing the Factory written by Barry Godfrey and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-02-28 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Policing the Factory describes the operation of various private policing agencies, employed to track down and prosecute workplace offenders. The authors focus in particular on the Worsted Committee and their Inspectors, who, between 1777 and 1968, prosecuted thousands of workers in the north of England for taking home workplace scraps, or wasting their employer's time. Most of the workers prosecuted spent a month in prison upon conviction, and many more were dismissed from employment without any formal legal action taking place. This book explores how, and under what legislative basis, the criminal law could be brought into private spaces in this period and goes on suggest that the activities of the Inspectorate inhibited the development of public policing in Yorkshire. The book presents case studies, newspaper comment, memoirs, and statistics based on detailed archival analysis of court records, to create a richly textured story which will inform and challenge contemporary debates on policing and police history.

Book A French Sociologist Looks at Britain

Download or read book A French Sociologist Looks at Britain written by Gustave d' Eichthal and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Economic Arithmetic

    Book Details:
  • Author : Stanley H. Palmer
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2017-05-18
  • ISBN : 1351781774
  • Pages : 213 pages

Download or read book Economic Arithmetic written by Stanley H. Palmer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-18 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Economic history is the most quantitative branch of history, reflecting the interests and profiting from the techniques and concepts of economics. This essay, first published in 1977, provides an extensive contribution to quantitative historiography by delivering a critical guide to the sources of the numerical data of the period 1700 to 1850. This title will be of interest to students of history, finance and economics.