Before the Luddites

Custom, Community and Machinery in the English Woollen Industry, 1776–1809

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Adrian Randall

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Paperback / softback

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Before 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.

Release date Australia

June 3rd, 2002

Author

Adrian Randall

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

Worked examples or Exercises

Pages

340

Dimensions

153x229x23

ISBN-13

9780521893343

Product ID

2355157

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