Abstract
Introduction 1. Early canals 1780-1812 2. 'As low as labour and capital can afford': the contracting system 1817-1840 3. 'Human labour, physical and intelligent' 4. Payment 'fit for labouring people' 5. 'The greatest quantity of labour' 6. 'Canawlers and citizens' 7. 'Guerilla war': labour conflict in the 1830s 8. 'This new order of things': the 1840s-1850s Conclusion Appendices Index.
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