All Stories

  1. Policing the Factory: Theft, Private Policing and the Law in Modern England
  2. CUSTOM, IDENTITY, AND THE JURY IN INDIA, 1800–1832
  3. The Enlightened Economy: An Economic History of Britain 1700–1850 (review)
  4. Learning on the Shop Floor: Historical Perspectives on Apprenticeship (review)
  5. Perceptions of Retailing in Early Modern England (review)
  6. THE DIARIES OF FRANCIS PLACE
  7. Writings of the Luddites (review)
  8. Governments, labour, and the law in mid‐Victorian Britain: the trade union legislation of the 1870s
  9. Customs and Excise: Trade, Production, and Consumption in England, 1640-1845 (review)
  10. The Ambiguities of Compulsory Arbitration and the Wartime Experience of Order 1305
  11. Making a Living in the Middle Ages: The People of Britain, 850-1520 (review)
  12. Patrick Duffy. The Skilled Compositor, 1850-1914: An Aristocrat among Working Men. (Modern Economic and Social History.) Burlington, ...
  13. An economist in troubled times
  14. Commerce, Character and Civil Society: Critiques of Capitalism during the Early Industrial Period
  15. John Belchem and Neville Kirk, eds., Languages of Labour. Brookfield, Vermont: Ashgate, 1997. vii + 222 pp. $68.95 cloth Neville Kirk, Change, Continuity and Class: Labour in British Society, 1850–1920. Manche...
  16. Industrial Arbitration, Equity, and Authority in England, 1800—1850
  17. Lowell J. Satre. Thomas Burt, Miners’ MP, 1837-1922: The Great Conciliator. Leicester: Leicester University Press; dist. by Continuum, New York. 1999. Pp. vi, 200. $75.00. ISBN 0-7185-0184-5.
  18. Chris Wrigley, ed., British Trade Unions, 1945–1995. New York: Manchester University Press, 1997. vi + 221 pp. $24.95 paper.
  19. Roy Church and Quentin Outram. Strikes and Solidarity: Coalfield Conflict in Britain, 1889-1966. New York: Cambridge University Press. 1998. Pp. xx, 314. $69.95. ISBN 0-521-55460-8.
  20. Book Reviews
  21. Religion, Gender and Education in a Durham Parish during the Early Nineteenth Century
  22. Authority and Job Regulation: Rule-Making by the London Compositors during the Early Nineteenth Century
  23. Alan Campbell, Nina Fishman, and David Howell, editors. Miners, Unions and Politics, 1910–47. Aldershot, U.K.: Scolar Press; distributed by Ashgate Publishing Company, Brookfield, Vt. 1996. Pp. xii, 307. $67.95. ISBN 1-85928-269-5.
  24. Paul A. Pickering. Chartism and the Chartists in Manchester and Salford. New York: St. Martin's Press. 1995. Pp. x, 294. $65.00. ISBN 0-312-12727-8.
  25. Drummond Diane K.. Crewe: Railway Town, Company and People, 1840–1914. Aldershot, U.K.: Edward Elgar Publishing Company; distributed by Ashgate Publishing Company, Brookfield, Vt. 1994. Pp. viii, 222. $63.95. ISBN 1-85898-081-X.
  26. The History of the British Coal Industry. Volume 1, Before 1700: Towards the Age of Coal.
  27. Duncan Tanner, Political Change and the Labour Party 1900–1918. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1990. xvii + 504 pp.Chris Wrigley, Lloyd George and the Challenge of Labour: The Post War Coalition 1918–1922. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990. vi...
  28. The struggle for market power
  29. Famine, disease and the social order in early modern society
  30. Jonathan Schneer, Labour's Conscience: The Labour Left, 1945–1951, Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1988. xiii + 249 pp.Peter Weiler, British Labour and the Cold War, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1988. ix + 431 pp.
  31. Introduction
  32. Capital and credit
  33. The perception of the market and industrial policy
  34. Managerial capitalism
  35. Family, community, and the labor market
  36. Work and the ideology of the market
  37. Religion, ideology, and trade unions
  38. Epilogue: class struggle and market power
  39. Conclusion: the labor process and the market
  40. Appendix
  41. Select bibliography
  42. The transformation of market relations: Tommy Hepburn's union, 1831