Before the Luddites: Custom, Community and Machinery in the English Woollen Industry, 1776-1809 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521893343)

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.

Author: Adrian Randall
ISBN-10: 0521893348
ISBN-13: 9780521893343
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 06/03/2002
Pages: 340
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.76d