The Rise of the Manufacturing Town: Birmingham and the Industrial Revolution |
Contents
Birmingham Economy and Society in | 3 |
Forces for Change | 25 |
Industrial Change | 40 |
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apprenticeship Asa Briggs attendance Attwood Behagg Birming Birmingham industry Birmingham Political Union Birmingham Reference Library Black Country Boulton & Fothergill Boulton & Watt building button-maker canal cent certainly Chadwick's Report chapter Chartism church courts Directory Dissenters earlier Economic History Review eighteenth century employed employers England entrepreneurs Eric Hopkins evidence expansion exports factory figures firms Grainger growth gun trade gun-maker historians History of Birmingham House of Commons Ibid important increase Industrial Revolution industrial towns iron industry John Julius Harvey leisure London Manchester manufacturers Matthew Boulton metal mid-eighteenth century mid-nineteenth century middle classes Midland Orders in Council period policies population Priestley Riots production reform Samuel Garbett second half seems Select Committee skilled small workshops social Society Soho St Monday steam power Street Taylor technological textile thesis Timmins toy trade trading and service wages Watt week workers working-class workmen