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Klappentext This book examines the process by which a capitalist society emerged in Bradford. Zusammenfassung This book examines the process by which a capitalist society emerged in Bradford. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Part I. From traditional community to industrial city: Bradford: 1750-1850: 1. Protoindustrialisation in Bradford: 1750-1810; 2. The crisis of the traditional community; 3. The urban-industrial revolution: 1810-1850; 5. The industrial city and the traditional elite; Part II. The emergence of a liberal entrepreneurial society and the rise of an urban-industrial bourgeoisie: 1825-1850: 6. The rising generation of urban entrepreneurs; 7. The making of the self-made man; 8. The life of the self-denying entrepreneur; 9. The promise of a liberal entrepreneurial society; 10. The culture of voluntarism: religious association; 11. The culture of voluntarism: secular association; 12. The politics of liberalism; Part III. The crisis of proletarianisation and the stabilisation of the urban-industrial world: 1825-1850; 13. The process of proletarianisation; 14. From self-reliance to public relief: the bourgeois response to working-class poverty; 15. Urban-industrial paternalism and the Tory radical revival; 16. The emergence of working-class culture and consciousness; 17. The challenge of Chartism; 18. The foundations of the mid-Victorian liberal consensus; Epilogue; Appendices; Index.
