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Factory Production in Nineteenth-Century Britain

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ISBN-10: 019514872X

ISBN-13: 9780195148725

Edition: 2003

Authors: Elaine Freedgood

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This anthology brings together writings ranging from the canonical to the obscure that suggest the scope of responses--from wondrous celebration to apocalyptic horror--elicited by the advent and establishment of the factory system in nineteenth-century Britain. Addressing complex questions about the possible effects of mass production on human life and labor, this collection presents important works by John Ruskin, Thomas Carlyle, and William Morris alongside lesser-known selections from factory tourists' tales and inspectors' reports, Parliamentary testimony, a Luddite pamphlet, and a cotton mill worker's autobiography. These texts reveal the richness and complexity of the debates,…    
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Book details

List price: $62.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/26/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Preface
Chronology
Introduction
Looking Inside
Tourists
A Day at a Hat-Factory (1843)
What There Is in a Button (1852)
The Process of Ironmaking (1907)
Investigators
On the Method of Observing Manufactories (1832)
The Industrial Position of Women (1893)
Historians
Inventions in Spinning Machines (1835)
Machines And Management
Theory
On the Division of Labor (1776)
from A Statement Regarding the New Lanark Establishment (1812)
On Machinery (1821)
Captains of Industry (1843)
The Factory (1867)
Practice
from The Beggar's Complaint (1813)
from On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures (1832)
General View of Manufacturing Industry (1835)
Hand Loom Weavers and Factory Workers: A Letter to James Turner, Cotton Spinner (1835)
The Effects of Machinery on Manual Labor, and on the Distribution of the Produce of Industry (1842)
Calculating Losses
Childhood and Domesticity
from The Moral and Physical Condition of the Working Classes (1832)
Separation of Families (1833)
Speech on the Ten Hours Act: Delivered in the House of Commons on the 22d of May, 1846 (1846)
Limbs and Lives
Yorkshire Slavery (1830)
Parliamentary Testimony on Child Labour (1837)
from Single Branches of Industry (1845)
Ground in the Mill (1854)
From His Diary (1860)
By Hand
The Humanity of the Handmade
The Nature of Gothic (1853)
The Revival of Handicraft: An Article in the ""Fortnightly Review,"" November 1888 (1888)
""Manual"" Labor and National Independence
The Duty of Spinning (1921)
Hand-Spinning Again (1921)
The Secret of Swaraj (1921)
Glossary
Contributor's Biographies
Suggestions for Further Reading
Index