The Factory Question and Industrial England, 1830-1860
Details:
- Author(s) Gray, Robert
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1996
- Pages 253pp; illus
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Place Published Cambridge
Topics:
- Name Health & safety at work inc legislation & regulation
- Name Worker / employee welfare inc working conditions, compensation, etc
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Investigates 'different [contemporary] perceptions of the 'factory system' either as a threat or as a promise, and the contested meanings of waged work in industry'. Structured in two parts: 1] 'Voices in a debate, c1830-1850' - 'Factory slavery' / 'Humanitarian opinion and rhetorics of reform' / 'Popular common sense, official enquiry and the State' / 'The responsibilities of employers' / 'The factory imagined'; 2] 'Factory regulation, c1840-1860' - 'Enforcement, resistance and compliance' / 'The ten hour day' / 'A reformed factory system?'