H. I. Dutton, J. E. King

Ten Per Cent and No Surrender

The Preston Strike, 1853 1854

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This is a study of industrial unrest in the cotton industry at a time when the economy was on the threshold of mid-Victorian prosperity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 471g
• ISBN-13: 9780521072571
• ISBN-10: 0521072573
• Artikelnr.: 24723838

Inhaltsangabe

1. Industry and Unions
2. Ten Per Cent (5 June-14 October 1853)
3. The Operatives
4. The Masters
5. Locked Out (15 October 1853-9 February 1854)
6. Council and Bench
7. Guardians of the Poor
8. Lord Palmerston
9. The Press
10. Defeat (10 February-13 May 1854)
11. Posterity.