{"product_id":"before-the-luddites-custom-community-and-machinery-in-the-english-woollen-industry-1776-1809-hardback-9780521390422","title":"Before the Luddites; Custom, Community and Machinery in the English Woollen Industry, 1776–1809 (Hardback) 9780521390422","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eBefore the Luddites\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eCustom, Community and Machinery in the English Woollen Industry, 1776–1809\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA study of the early Industrial Revolution in the English woollen cloth making industry.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAdrian Randall (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521390422, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 7 March 1991\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e340 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.3 x 16.6 x 2.9 cm, 0.64 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eBefore 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of illustrations\u003cbr\u003e List of tables\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e List of abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. Industrial organisation and culture\u003cbr\u003e 2. Machinery, the factory and labour displacement\u003cbr\u003e 3. The advent of machinery and community resistance\u003cbr\u003e 4. The cloth dressers, trade unionism and machinery\u003cbr\u003e 5. Industrial violence and machine breaking - the Wiltshire Outrages\u003cbr\u003e 6. Custom and law: the weavers' campaign\u003cbr\u003e 7. The political economy of machine breaking\u003cbr\u003e 8. machinery, custom and class\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Name and place index\u003cbr\u003e Subject index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Social \u0026amp; cultural history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Social \u0026amp; cultural history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Social%20\u0026amp;%20cultural%20history%20%5BHBTB%5D%22\"\u003eHBTB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45913260654872,"sku":"9780521390422","price":70.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521390422i_0f50ebfc-c5a0-4d6e-93de-4d3edfdabc2b.jpg?v=1691376254","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/before-the-luddites-custom-community-and-machinery-in-the-english-woollen-industry-1776-1809-hardback-9780521390422","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}