Vendor
	Edward Everett Root John Spiers
Original language
English
Categories
Victorian period (1837–1901) Sociology: work & labour

Work, Society and Politics

Patrick Joyce

The Culture of the Factory in Later Victorian England.

The acclaimed major interpretation of 19th century society and politics concerning the human impact of the industrial revolution. Offers a subtle and responsive understanding of the formation of class consciousness, and a recognition that deference and stability as well as independence in class relations grew out of working-class culture and community , and thus out of the centre of people’s lives. With a new Preface by the author.

Comments

“His results challenge many old and new orthodoxies… The freshness of insight on almost every page is both daunting and invigorating.” - Times Educational Supplement

“A major work of synthesis and interpretation, based on extensive research in industrial Lancashire and in the West Riding in the second half of the nineteenth century. It is a superb example of the new social history. - Journal of Modern History.

“It is a remarkable and original first book, outstanding in its subtlety of perception, its documentary range and its many-sidedness of approach. - Times Literary Supplement.