Introduction
Part I. From traditional community to industrial city: Bradford: 1750-1850: 1. Protoindustrialisation in Bradford: 1750-1810
2. The crisis of the traditional community
3. The urban-industrial revolution: 1810-1850
5. The industrial city and the traditional elite
Part II. The emergence of a liberal entrepreneurial society and the rise of an urban-industrial bourgeoisie: 1825-1850: 6. The rising generation of urban entrepreneurs
7. The making of the self-made man
8. The life of the self-denying entrepreneur
9. The promise of a liberal entrepreneurial society
10. The culture of voluntarism: religious association
11. The culture of voluntarism: secular association
12. The politics of liberalism
Part III. The crisis of proletarianisation and the stabilisation of the urban-industrial world: 1825-1850
13. The process of proletarianisation
14. From self-reliance to public relief: the bourgeois response to working-class poverty
15. Urban-industrial paternalism and the Tory radical revival
16. The emergence of working-class culture and consciousness
17. The challenge of Chartism
18. The foundations of the mid-Victorian liberal consensus
Epilogue
Appendices
Index.
