London in the Age of Industrialisation: Entrepreneurs, Labour Force and Living Conditions, 1700-1850This book is the first full-length analysis of the London working population and the effects of the industrial revolution in London to appear for over sixty years. Prior to the mid-nineteenth century London may not have experienced the direct effects of the industrial revolution to any great extent, but the indirect effects were felt strongly. L. D. Schwarz disagrees with the view that "The industrial revolution was a storm that passed over London and broke elsewhere," and seeks to judge the effect of industrialization on what was the country's largest manufacturing city. Its size and role as national capital meant that London was in certain important respects unique, but it was nonetheless susceptible to many of the wider economic transformations that occurred during the period 1700-1850, and Dr. Schwarz offers a detailed analysis of the changes to the economy and social structure of London these wrought. |
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apprentices apprenticeship artisans assessed tax boom bread prices bricklayers building Cambridge capital capital's carpenters census cent chapter City City of London Company consumption convulsions crisis death rate decline E. A. Wrigley early eighteenth century earnings Econ economic eighteenth century employed employers employment England and Wales fall female fevers figures fluctuations Francis Place growth guilds haberdashers half History houses of call Ibid important income increase industrial revolution infant journeymen labour force labour market large number late seventeenth less London trades London's population makers male manufacturing masters Mayhew metropolis mortality moving average Napoleonic Wars nineteenth century occupations paid parishes peak percentage period poor Port of London production proportion quarter real wage real wage rates retailers Schwarz Season sector semi-skilled servants seventeenth century shoemakers shopkeepers shops silkweavers skilled smallpox social Spitalfields statistics sweated labour Table tailors Tower Division town weavers winter women Wrigley