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Manufacture in Town and Country Before the Factory

Pat Hudson editor Maxine Berg editor Michael Sonenscher editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:9th May '02

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The essays in this book explore the internal organisation of production before the development of the factory system.

The internal organisation of production before the development of the factory system is still shrouded in historical mystery. How goods were made before machines, how work was organised before the factory system, are questions to which we have only hesitant and tentative answers. The essays in this book are intended to begin to remedy this neglect.The internal organisation of production before the development of the factory system is still shrouded in historical mystery. How goods were made before machines, how work was organised before the factory system, how artisans and labourers perceived and lived their work are questions to which we have only hesitant and tentative answers. Hitherto, historians have been too concerned with the emerging features of the modern industrial capitalist order to seek to understand how another and different economy and community worked in its own terms. The essays in this book are intended to begin to remedy this neglect.

'... 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

ISBN: 9780521893596

Dimensions: 229mm x 154mm x 18mm

Weight: 345g

224 pages