Before the Luddites: Custom, Community and Machinery in the English Woollen Industry, 1776-1809

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Author: Adrian Randall

ISBN-10: 0521390427

ISBN-13: 9780521390422

Category: Basic Materials Industries - History

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

List of illustrations; List of tables; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Industrial organisation and culture; 2. Machinery, the factory and labour displacement; 3. The advent of machinery and community resistance; 4. The cloth dressers, trade unionism and machinery; 5. Industrial violence and machine breaking - the Wiltshire Outrages; 6. Custom and law: the weavers' campaign; 7. The political economy of machine breaking; 8. machinery, custom and class; Conclusion; Bibliography; Name and place index; Subject index.