Manufacture in Town and Country Before the Factory

'... this wide-ranging and important collection ... performs a considerable service in drawing together essays which look at the complexity and intellectual vitality of a radical tradition.' The Welsh History Review '... a collection of essays which adds finesse and diversity to our understanding of British progressivism in a formative period ...'. Michael Freeden, Labour History Review

• List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; 1. Manufacture in town and country before the factory Maxine Berg, Pat Hudson and Michael Sonenscher; 2. Political economy and the principles of manufacture 1700–1800 Maxine Berg; Part I. The Structure of Manufacture: 3. Variations in industrial structure in pre-industrial Languedoc J. K. J. Thomson; 4. Seasonal fluctuations and social division of labour: rural linen production in the Osnabrück and Bielefeld regions and the urban woollen industry in the Niederlausitz, c.1770–c.1850 Jürgen Schlumbohm; 5. From manor to mill: the West Riding in transition Pat Hudson; Part II. 'Work' and 'Wages': 6. Work and wages in Paris in the eighteenth century Michael Sonenscher; 7. Embezzlement, industry and the law in England, 1500–1800 John Styles; Index.