Class formation and urban-industrial society: Bradford, 1750-1850

Abstract

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.