Labor and Industry in Britain
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Total Pages | : 972 |
Release | : 1943 |
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Total Pages | : 972 |
Release | : 1943 |
Genre | : Industries |
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Total Pages | : 4 |
Release | : 1945 |
Genre | : Industries |
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Author | : Jane Humphries |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 455 |
Release | : 2010-06-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1139489283 |
This is a unique account of working-class childhood during the British industrial revolution, first published in 2010. Using more than 600 autobiographies written by working men of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Jane Humphries illuminates working-class childhood in contexts untouched by conventional sources and facilitates estimates of age at starting work, social mobility, the extent of apprenticeship and the duration of schooling. The classic era of industrialisation, 1790–1850, apparently saw an upsurge in child labour. While the memoirs implicate mechanisation and the division of labour in this increase, they also show that fatherlessness and large subsets, common in these turbulent, high-mortality and high-fertility times, often cast children as partners and supports for mothers struggling to hold families together. The book offers unprecedented insights into child labour, family life, careers and schooling. Its images of suffering, stoicism and occasional childish pleasures put the humanity back into economic history and the trauma back into the industrial revolution.
Author | : Marc W. Steinberg |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2016-04-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 022633001X |
With England’s Great Transformation, Marc W. Steinberg throws a wrench into our understanding of the English Industrial Revolution, largely revising the thesis at heart of Karl Polanyi’s landmark The Great Transformation. The conventional wisdom has been that in the nineteenth century, England quickly moved toward a modern labor market where workers were free to shift from employer to employer in response to market signals. Expanding on recent historical research, Steinberg finds to the contrary that labor contracts, centered on insidious master-servant laws, allowed employers and legal institutions to work in tandem to keep employees in line. Building his argument on three case studies—the Hanley pottery industry, Hull fisheries, and Redditch needlemakers—Steinberg employs both local and national analyses to emphasize the ways in which these master-servant laws allowed employers to use the criminal prosecutions of workers to maintain control of their labor force. Steinberg provides a fresh perspective on the dynamics of labor control and class power, integrating the complex pathways of Marxism, historical institutionalism, and feminism, and giving readers a subtle yet revelatory new understanding of workplace control and power during England’s Industrial Revolution.
Author | : Carolyn Tuttle |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2021-11-28 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0429701500 |
Children have worked for centuries and continue to work. The history of the economic development of Europe and North America includes numerous instances of child labor. Manufacturers in England, France, Belgium, Germany, and Prussia as well as the United States used child labor during the initial stages of industrialization. In addition, child labor prevails currently in many industries in the Third World. This book examines the explanations for child labor in an economic context. A model of the labor market for children is constructed using the new economics of the family framework to derive the supply of child labor and the traditional labor theory of marginal productivity to derive the demand for child labor. The model is placed into a historical context and is used to test the existing supply-and-demand-induced explanations for an increase in child labor during the British Industrial Revolution. Evidence on the extent of childrens employment, their specific tasks and trends in their wages from the textile industry and mining industry is used to support the argument that it was technological innovation which created a demand for child labor. Certain mechanical inventions and process innovations increased the demand for child labor in three ways: increasing number of assistants needed; increasing the substitutability between children and adults, and creating work situations that only children could fill. Specific innovations in the production of textiles and in the extraction of coal, copper and tin are highlighted to show how they favored the use of child workers over adult workers. The book concludes with a look at the current situations in developing countries where child labor is prevalent. Considerable insight is gained on the role of child labor in economic development when this historical model is applied to the contemporary situation.
Author | : Jeffrey G. Williamson |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2002-05-09 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780521893886 |
This book assesses Britain's handling of city growth during the First Industrial Revolution.
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Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1952 |
Genre | : Industries |
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Author | : N. F. R. Crafts |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 377 |
Release | : 2007-01-11 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 019921266X |
Written by leading British historians and economists, this volume looks at how fundamental changes in British labor markets throughout the 20th century transformed the lives of the British people.
Author | : Paul de Rousiers |
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Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 1896 |
Genre | : Labor |
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Author | : Joyce Burnette |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 16 |
Release | : 2008-04-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1139470582 |
A major study of the role of women in the labour market of Industrial Revolution Britain. It is well known that men and women usually worked in different occupations, and that women earned lower wages than men. These differences are usually attributed to custom but Joyce Burnette here demonstrates instead that gender differences in occupations and wages were instead largely driven by market forces. Her findings reveal that rather than harming women competition actually helped them by eroding the power that male workers needed to restrict female employment and minimising the gender wage gap by sorting women into the least strength-intensive occupations. Where the strength requirements of an occupation made women less productive than men, occupational segregation maximised both economic efficiency and female incomes. She shows that women's wages were then market wages rather than customary and the gender wage gap resulted from actual differences in productivity.