Maxine Berg

The Machinery Question and the Making of Political Economy 1815 1848

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The book will interest teachers and students of British social and economic history, the history of economic thought and the history of science and technology.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. August 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 592g
• ISBN-13: 9780521287593
• ISBN-10: 0521287596
• Artikelnr.: 25617535

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: The machinery question
1. The age of machinery
2. The progress of the machine
3. The advent of political economy
Part II: The political economy of machinery
4. Ricardo's chapter
5. Political economy and the division of labour
6. Political economy and capital
Part III: A science of machinery
7. The scientific movement
8. The order of the factory
Part IV: The politics of machinery
9. The export of machinery
10. The handloom weavers
Part V: The social critics of machinery
11. Tories
12. Radicals
13. Social Reformers
Epilogue: Beyond machinery
14. Engels and mill.