Politics and Production in the Early Nineteenth Century
Details:
- Author(s) Behagg, Clive
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1990
- Pages 273pp
- Publisher Routledge
- Place Published London
Topics:
- Name Production of goods & services - methods & organisation
- Name Micro-scale businesses
- Name Business & politics inc lobbying
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Scholarly work based on doctoral thesis but much revised. Deals with the small workshop economy in the early period of industrialisation, using the context of Birmingham, to explore the emerging political response provoked by changing conditions. Has sections: 'Industrialisation and the transformation of the small producer'; 'Politics and small scale production'; 'The worst of democracies - the internal life of the workplace'; 'Riding the tiger - middle class and working class radicalism in the Reform Bill campaign'; 'The early Chartist experience'