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Capital and Labour in Victorian England

Manufacturing Consensus

Dr Donna Loftus author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Publishing:13th Nov '25

£85.00

This title is due to be published on 13th November, and will be despatched as soon as possible.

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It examines Victorian understandings of industrialisation and looks at how the transformation to industrial capitalism was managed.

Despite extensive scholarship on the social and cultural history of industrial England there is little work that explores how new forms of capitalist production were understood and normalised. Capital and Labour in Victorian England explores how accounts of industrial society evolved in the 19th century and how they inspired reform movements designed to accommodate the conflicts and contradictions that were a feature of industrial capitalism. It traces the rise of capitalist utopianism in the mid-century, and how such visions fell apart in the face of industrial unrest, organised labour, and more aggressive forms of capitalism. By the end of the century capital and labour were seen as inevitably separate, distinct and opposed - a development that sharpened class politics and shaped the way the first accounts of industrialisation were written.

ISBN: 9781441196583

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: unknown

208 pages