Industrial Revolution in Shropshire
Details:
- Author(s) Trinder, Barrie S
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2000
- Pages 3rd ed; 286pp; illus
- Publisher Phillimore
- Place Published Chichester
Topics:
- Name Power & fuel history
- Name Faith & ethnicity
- Name Worker / employee housing & communities
- Name Worker / employee management inc control
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
First published 1973. Description based on first edition. Provides a scholarly and early detailed account of the industrial revolution in Shropshire covering especially iron production, fabricated products, and coal and iron ore extraction along with subsidiary industries as well as areas such as transport [road and inland waterway]; power including steam engines; workforce, workers' housing; migration of workers; religion; etc. Much on individual businesses and ironworks, notably the Coalbrookdate Co and the Darby family; John Wilkinson; William Reynolds; the Lilleshall Co and the Leveson-Gower family; Severn Navigation; etc. Ironworks referred to include: Calcutts Ironworks; Benthall Ironworks; Horsehay Ironworks; Ketley Ironworks; Madeley Wood Ironworks; Old Park Ironworks; Willey Ironworks. Chapters include: 'Riverside economy'; 'Coalbrookdale Ironworks, 1708-50'; 'Revolution in the iron trade'; 'Economy of a landed estate'; 'Great ironmaking partnerships'; 'Patterns of transport'; 'Steam power'; 'The masters'; 'Industrial diversification'; 'The mecca of Methodism'; 'Migrant workers'; 'Cottages and communities'; 'Discipline - industrial and social'; 'Times of crisis'; 'Collapse and renaissance'