Family and Business During the Industrial Revolution

Zusatztext Barker skilfully elicits a culture immersed in a prevailing ideology of harmony built on honor! reputation! and equity; an emotional world that expressed itself in terms of companionate marriages and affectionate parenting; and a built world that embodied hierarchies and gendered differences rather than public and private spaces ... Highly recommended. Informationen zum Autor Hannah Barker is a historian of the north of England during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. She is Professor of British History at the University of Manchester and Director of the John Rylands Research Institute. She is also Chair of Manchester Histories, a charity that works to transform lives in Greater Manchester through histories and heritage, and Historical Advisor for the National Trust at Quarry Bank Mill inCheshire. Klappentext Small businesses were at the heart of the economic growth and social transformation that characterized the industrial revolution in eighteenth and nineteenth century Britain; this monograph examines the economic, social, and cultural history of some of these forgotten businesses and the men and women who worked in them and ran them. Zusammenfassung Small businesses were at the heart of the economic growth and social transformation that characterized the industrial revolution in eighteenth and nineteenth century Britain; this monograph examines the economic, social, and cultural history of some of these forgotten businesses and the men and women who worked in them and ran them.

Summary

Small businesses were at the heart of the economic growth and social transformation that characterized the industrial revolution in eighteenth and nineteenth century Britain; this monograph examines the economic, social, and cultural history of some of these forgotten businesses and the men and women who worked in them and ran them.

Product details

• Authors: Hannah Barker, Hannah (Professor of British History Barker, Barker Hannah
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.02.2017
• EAN: 9780198786023
• ISBN: 978-0-19-878602-3
• No. of pages: 280
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, European History, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, British & Irish history, Social and cultural history, Industrialisation & Industrial History, Industrialisation and industrial history