1750-1850
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Köp båda 2 för 835 krKenneth Morgan is Professor of History at Brunel and an authority on colonial history and slavery. His latest book is Slavery, Atlantic Trade and the British Economy, 1660-1800for OUP (2008).
PART ONE: Introduction
1. THE BIRTH OF INDUSTRIAL BRITAIN
PART TWO: ANALYSIS
2. WORK AND LEISURE
Agriculture
Domestic Industry and the Factory
Womens Work
Child Labour
Legislation on Labour Practices
Leisure and Recreation
3. LIVING AND HEALTH STANDARDS
The Demographic Context
Housing and the Environment
Real Wages
Regional and Occupational Wage Variations
Female and Child Labour, Family Budgets and Entitlements
Height and Health
4. RELIGION AND SOCIETY
The Church of England
The Rise of Evangelicalism
Methodism and Society
5. POPULAR EDUCATION
Elementary Schools
Sunday Schools
Voluntary Schools and Monitorial Education
State Provision for Schools
Factory Schools
Poor Law Schools
Literacy and the Curriculum
Social Control and Elementary Education
Adult Education
6. THE OLD AND NEW POOR LAWS
The Operation of the Old Poor Law
The Old Poor Law under Pressure, 17931832
Changing Views on the Old Poor Law
The Royal Commission on the Poor Law, 1832
The Poor Law Amendment Act, 1834
The Implementation of the New Poor Law
The Poor Law in Scotland
7. POPULAR PROTEST
Grain Riots and the Moral Economy of the Crowd
Wilkes and Liberty
Revolutionary Protest?
The Luddites
From Luddism to the Reform Bill Riots
Chartism
8. CRIME, JUSTICE AND PUNISHMENT
The Operation of the Law
Prosecution
Enforcing the Law
Physical Punishments
Convict Transportation
Prisons
PART three: assessment
9. CONCLUSION
PART FOUR: DOCUMENTS
1. New Lanark, A model factory, 178491
2. Occupations in 1851
3. Richard Oastler on child labour in Yorkshire Mills
4. Festivals, holidays and local communities
5. Two family budgets, 1794
6. Pauperism and public health, 1842
7. Annual leverage price of British wheat per quarter, 180151
8. Average weekly wages in some industrial, 184951
9. Religion and class, 1849
10. The visitation of Chesterfield, 1751
11. A Methodist class meeting, c.1822
12. Samuel Bamford on Sunday schools
13. Work and discipline in the monitorial school, 1810
14. A view of workhouse education, 1838
15. Address at the opening of the London mechanics institution, 10 February 1824
16. The duties of an assistant overseer of the poor, 1832
17. Settlement examination and removal order, Wiltshire, 1766
18. The Speenhamland decision, 6 May 179...