Wages, Manufacturers and Workers in the Nineteenth-Century Factory

'Scholliers's grim story of Voortman's century-long reliance on low-wage competition vividly conveys the harsh logic of nineteenth-century capitalism.'Economic History Review'The abiding value of this work lies in its firm basis in original sources. The rich mass of business archives ... is here presented in accessible form to the dedicated scholar. A superb series of statistics ... (provides) historians with a positive treasury of valuable information. ... The work deserves to reach a readership extending beyond the circles of those interested in the history of business, labour and of textiles.'Besprechungen'The book provides a well-focused analysis of the problems of the 1970s and it is readily accessible to undergraduates of economics and history. It provides an important supplement to those texts dealing with the half-century since the war.'Business History'the author has made this study of real importance to both economic and social historians who are interested in