John Belchem. Industrialization and the Working Class. The English Experience, 1750-1900.
Portland: Areopagitica Press, 1990.
280 páginas.
Contents
Introduction
PART ONE
1750-1850
1 – The industrial revolution
2 – Living standards
Wages and earnings
Family income
Expenditure
Poverty and distress
3 – Housing
4 – Work
5 – Popular culture
6 – Popular radicalism
The eighteenth-century crowd: food riots
Industrial disturbances
Parliamentary reform and the urban crowd
Jacobinism
Burdettite radicalism
The postwar mass platform
The 1820s
Reform
Trade unionism in the 1830s
The war of the unstamped
The short-time movement and the anti-Poor Law campaign
Early Chartism
The National Charter Association
The ‘general strike’of 1842
Chartism in the 1840s
Rural protest
1848
‘The Charter and something more’
7 – The working class observed
PART TWO
1850-1875
8 – ‘The mid-Victorian boom’
9 – Living standards
10 – Housing
11 – Work
12 – Popular culture
13 – Reformism and the labour movement
14 – The working class observed
PART THREE
1875-1900
15 – ‘The Great Depression’
16 – Living standards
17 – Housing
18 – Work
19 – Popular culture
20 – Labour’s turning-point?
21 – The working class observed