The Moral And Physical Condition Of The Working Classes Employed In The Cotton Manufacture Of Manchester
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Author | : James Philips Kay Shuttleworth |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 108 |
Release | : 2019-05-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0429620349 |
This book was originally published in 1832. Dr. James Philips Kay (later Sir James Kay Shuttleworth) studied medicine in Edinburgh and then began to practise in Manchester where he acquired a wide knowledge of working-class conditions and diseases. In 1831-2 he acted as secretary to the Manchester Board of Health which was set up to combat the threatened cholera epidemic, and it is thanks in part to the devoted labours of Kay and his colleagues that the epidemic in Manchester was less severe than in other cities. This vividly written pamphlet embodies the fruits of Kay Shuttleworth's experiences in the capital of the cotton kingdom. He describes the newly set up Boards of Health investigatings into the state of Manchester's poor, and enumerates the causes of their physical depression, with all its attendant moral degradation and predisposition to disease. As well as supplying statistics for pauperism, crime and mortality, Shuttleworth provides suggestions for improving working class conditions. This is the best known of all the literature produced about workers' ocnditions in the early nineteenth century, and is a work which has been widely quoted and used by both economic and social historians.
Author | : Sir James Kay-Shuttleworth |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 1832 |
Genre | : Cotton growing and manufacture |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Frances Collier |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : Cotton manufacture |
ISBN | : |
UK. Historical study of family budgets and family economy of cotton textile workers of the textile industry - child labour, the woman worker employed to work at home, cost of living, living conditions, family wages earnings, apprentices, the effect of industrialization, etc.
Author | : Edward Palmer Thompson |
Publisher | : IICA |
Total Pages | : 866 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
This account of artisan and working-class society in its formative years, 1780 to 1832, adds an important dimension to our understanding of the nineteenth century. E.P. Thompson shows how the working class took part in its own making and re-creates the whole life experience of people who suffered loss of status and freedom, who underwent degradation and who yet created a culture and political consciousness of great vitality.
Author | : Friedrich Engels |
Publisher | : Cosimo, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 2009-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1605203688 |
From 1842 to 1844, German philosopher FRIEDRICH ENGELS (1820-1895) lived in Manchester, England, and witnessed firsthand the impact of the nation's burgeoning Industrial Revolution on the poor. In this classic treatise, Engels documents, in what is today his best-known work, the terrible working conditions, rampant disease, overcrowded housing, child labor, and other horrors of the time. Originally intended for a German audience and translated for American readers in 1885 by American socialist, suffragette, and civil rights activist FLORENCE KELLEY WISCHNEWETZKY (1859-1932), this work has never been out of print. It remains a startling record of the era, and is must-reading for anyone wishing a deeper understanding of Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto, which Engels collaborated on with his friend only a few years later.
Author | : Frederick Engels |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2023-08-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9359392766 |
"The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844" by Frederick Engels is a powerful indictment of the Industrial Revolution's detrimental impact on workers. Engels meticulously demonstrates how industrial cities like Manchester and Liverpool experienced alarmingly high mortality rates due to diseases, with workers being four times more likely to succumb to illnesses like smallpox, measles, scarlet fever, and whooping cough compared to their rural counterparts. The overall death rate in these cities far surpassed the national average, painting a grim picture of the workers' plight. Engels goes beyond mortality statistics to shed light on the dire living conditions endured by industrial workers. He argues that their wages were lower than those of pre-industrial workers, and they were forced to inhabit unhealthy and unpleasant environments. Addressing a German audience, Engels' work is considered a classic account of the universal struggles faced by the industrial working class. It reveals his transformation into a radical thinker after witnessing the harsh realities in England. "The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844" remains an essential resource for understanding the hardships endured by workers during the Industrial Revolution. Engels' meticulous research and impassioned arguments continue to shape discussions on labor rights, social inequality, and the historical agency of the working class.
Author | : Friedrich Engels |
Publisher | : DigiCat |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2022-05-28 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
The Condition of the Working Class in England is a book by philosopher Friedrich Engels. Essentially a study of the industrial working class in England, the author argues that the Industrial Revolution made workers worse off.
Author | : James Phillips Kay Shuttleworth |
Publisher | : Franklin Classics |
Total Pages | : 78 |
Release | : 2018-10-06 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780341692027 |
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author | : Boyd Hilton |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 784 |
Release | : 2008-06-19 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0199218919 |
In a period scarred by apprehensions of revolution, war, invasion, poverty and disease, elite members of society lived in fear of revolt. Boyd Hilton examines the changes in society between 1783-1846 and the transformations from raffish and rakish behaviour to the new norms of Victorian respectability.
Author | : Graeme Davison |
Publisher | : Melbourne Univ. Publishing |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2009-07-15 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0522859992 |
Body and Mind pays tribute to one of Australia's most outstanding and influential historians, F. B. (Barry) Smith. Barry has made pioneering contributions to the political, social and cultural histories of Britain and Australia, and these essays range across the fields he made his own, especially the interconnected histories of medicine (body) and ideas (mind). The editors bring together several generations of Barry's admirers, colleagues, friends and pupils, including Joanna Bourke writing on war and industrial trauma, Peter Edwards on the Agent Orange controversy, Pat Jalland on death in the London Blitz and Phillipa Mein Smith on the idea of Australasia. Body and Mind is a salute to the inestimable work, and the life and times of F. B. Smith.