The Philosophy of Manufactures

The Philosophy of Manufactures
Author: Andrew Ure
Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
Total Pages: 494
Release: 2014-08-07
Genre:
ISBN: 9781498168618

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1835 Edition.

Morality and the Market in Victorian Britain

Morality and the Market in Victorian Britain
Author: Geoffrey Russell Searle
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 328
Release: 1998
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780198206989

How could Victorian capitalist values be harmonized with Christian beliefs and concepts of public morality and social duty? This book explores ideas about citizenship and public virtue and how public morality was reconciled with the market.

Violence and Crime in Nineteenth-century England

Violence and Crime in Nineteenth-century England
Author: John Carter Wood
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2004
Genre: Crime
ISBN: 9780415329057

Combining a vivid analysis of criminal records and public debate with theories from cultural studies, anthropology and social geography, this book contributes to current debates in history, criminology and violence studies.

Hard Times

Hard Times
Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher: Broadview Press
Total Pages: 461
Release: 1996-03-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1770483969

Despite the title, Dickens’s portrayal of early industrial society here is less relentlessly grim than that in novels by contemporaries such as Elizabeth Gaskell or Charles Kingsley. Hard Times weaves the tale of Thomas Gradgrind, a hard-headed politician who raises his children Louisa and Tom without love, of Sissy the circus girl with love to spare who is deserted and adopted into their family, and of the honest mill worker Stephen Blackpool and the bombastic mill owner Josiah Bounderby. The key contrasts created are finally less those between wealth and poverty, or capitalists and workers, than those between the head and the heart, between “Fact”—the cold, rationalistic approach to life that Dickens associates with utilitarianism—and “Fancy”—a warmth of the imagination and of the feelings, which values individuals above ideas. Concentrated and compressed in its narrative form, Hard Times is at once a fable, a novel of ideas, and a social novel that seeks to engage directly and analytically with political issues. The central conflicts raised in the text, between government’s duty not to intervene to guarantee the liberty of the subject, and between quantitative and qualitative assessments of progress, remain unresolved today in the late or post industrial stages of liberal democracies.