Social Change in the Industrial Revolution: An Application of Theory to the British Cotton IndustryFirst Published in 2005. The following study analyses several sequences of differentiation and a attempt to apply social theory to history. Such an analysis naturally calls for two components: (1) a segment of social theory; and (2) an empirical instance of change. For the first the author has selected a model of social change from a developing general theory of action; for the second, the British industrial revolution between 1770 and 1840. From this large revolution is the isolated the growth of the cotton industry and the transformation of the family structure of its working classes. |
Contents
SOME EMPTY THEORETICAL BOXES | 7 |
STRUCTURAL DIFFERENTIATION IN WEAVING | 129 |
REFILLING THE BOXES | 158 |
PRESSURES ON THE FAMILY DIVISION OF LABOUR | 180 |
LEGISLATION | 265 |
THE EVOLUTION | 313 |
THE QUESTION OF EXPLANATION IN WORKINGCLASS | 384 |
SUMMARY OF THE ANALYSIS | 402 |
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adult analysis Arkwright attempt Britain British capital capitalist Chapter Chartist classes co-operative Committee consumption Cotton Industry Cotton Manufacture Cotton Trade dissatisfaction domestic early nineteenth century earning Economic History eighteenth century employment England exports factory agitation Factory Commissioners Factory Inspectors factory legislation factory operatives factory system family economy family's friendly society functions Furthermore Glasgow Hand-loom Weavers Hence Ibid improvements increase industrial revolution instance jenny Leonard Horner London loom machinery machines Manchester Manchester Guardian Manuscripts on Trade masters ment mills motivation mule Napoleonic war occupational organization Parliamentary Papers period Poor Law power-loom pressure production profits putting-out system raw cotton responsible Richard Arkwright Robert Owen roles Samuel Crompton Samuel Oldknow savings banks social system spindles spinners spinning Step Stockport strikes structural differentiation sub-system symptoms of disturbance tion Trade Unionism units value-system values Wadsworth and Mann wages water-frame weaving Webb Manuscripts women workers workmen yarn
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