Before the Luddites: Custom, Community, and Machinery in the English Woollen Industry, 1776-1809

Abstract

List of illustrations List of tables Acknowledgements List of abbreviations Introduction 1. Industrial organisation and culture 2. Machinery, the factory and labour displacement 3. The advent of machinery and community resistance 4. The cloth dressers, trade unionism and machinery 5. Industrial violence and machine breaking - the Wiltshire Outrages 6. Custom and law: the weavers' campaign 7. The political economy of machine breaking 8. machinery, custom and class Conclusion Bibliography Name and place index Subject index.