| Capital and Labour in Victorian England: Manufacturing Consensus Contributor(s): Loftus, Donna (Author), Noakes, Lucy (Editor), McWilliam, Rohan (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1441196587 ISBN-13: 9781441196583 Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic OUR PRICE: $109.25 Product Type: Hardcover Published: March 2025 This item may be ordered no more than 25 days prior to its publication date of March 6, 2025 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Modern - 19th Century - History | Social History - History | Europe - Great Britain - General |
| Series: New Directions in Social and Cultural History |
| Physical Information: 208 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Despite extensive scholarship on the social and cultural history of industrial England there is little work that explores how new forms of capitalist production were understood and normalised. Capital and Labour in Victorian England explores how accounts of industrial society evolved in the 19th century and how they inspired reform movements designed to accommodate the conflicts and contradictions that were a feature of industrial capitalism. It traces the rise of capitalist utopianism in the mid-century, and how such visions fell apart in the face of industrial unrest, organised labour, and more aggressive forms of capitalism. By the end of the century capital and labour were seen as inevitably separate, distinct and opposed - a development that sharpened class politics and shaped the way the first accounts of industrialisation were written. |
Contributor Bio(s): Noakes, Lucy: - Lucy Noakes is a Reader in Modern British History at the University of Brighton, UK.McWilliam, Rohan: - Rohan McWilliam is Senior Lecturer in History at Anglia Ruskin University and author of Popular Politics in Nineteenth-Century England and the editor (with Kelly Boyd) of The Victorian Studies Reader (2007). Handley, Sasha: - Sasha Handley is Lecturer in Early Modern Cultural History at the University of Manchester, UK. |