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Before the Luddites

Custom, Community and Machinery in the English Woollen Industry, 1776–1809

Adrian Randall author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:3rd Jun '02

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A study of the early Industrial Revolution in the English woollen cloth making industry.

Before the Luddites is a study of the early Industrial Revolution in the English woollen cloth-making industry in the West of England and Yorkshire which concentrates upon the social background of and response to change. It is particularly concerned to explain the reasons for and the effect of Luddism.Before the Luddites is a study of the early Industrial Revolution in the English woollen cloth-making industry in the West of England and Yorkshire which concentrates upon the social background of and response to change. It is particularly concerned to explain the reasons for and the effect of Luddism. This book argues that resistance to machinery had a long history before the Luddite disturbances of 1811–12 and that this response to change sprang from a community culture which was deep-rooted and hostile to the values of economic individualism embodied by the new economy and to laissez-faire.

ISBN: 9780521893343

Dimensions: 229mm x 153mm x 23mm

Weight: 517g

340 pages