"Ten per cent and no surrender" : the Preston strike, 1853-1854
This is a study of industrial unrest in the cotton industry at a time when the economy was on the threshold of mid-Victorian prosperity, and when Chartism was still much more than a memory. The town of Preston was the crucial battlefield, and here the masters and men fought out a bitter trial of strength.
Print Book, English, 1981
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [Cambridgeshire], 1981
viii, 274 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780521236201, 0521236207
7778459
Machine derived contents note: 1. Industry and Unions; 2. Ten Per Cent (5 June-14 October 1853); 3. The Operatives; 4. The Masters; 5. Locked Out (15 October 1853-9 February 1854); 6. Council and Bench; 7. Guardians of the Poor; 8. Lord Palmerston; 9. The Press; 10. Defeat (10 February-13 May 1854); 11. Posterity