Evaluate the main changes to the organisation of industrial work in Britain from the 1770s to the 1830s. How did these influence the character of industrial protests in the same period?
Readings to be used for citation:
Navikas, Katrina, ‘The Search for “General Ludd”: the mythology of Luddism’, Social History, 30.3 (2005), pp. 281-95
Wallis, Patrick, ‘Labour markets and training’, in Roderick Floud, Jane Humphrie and Paul Johnson, eds, The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain. Volume I, 1700-1870 (Cambridge University Press, 2014), chapter 6, especially pp. 178-194
Fraser, W. Hamish, A History of British Trade Unionism, 1700-1998 (London: Macmillan, 1999), e-book, chapter 1, especially pp. 8-13 (on the law) and pp. 13-19 (on trade unions as ‘responses to capitalism’)
Houston, Rab, ‘Coal, Class and Culture: Labour Relations in the Scottish Mining Community, 1650-1750’, Social History, 8.1 (1983), pp. 1-18 [note earlier chronological coverage but offers valuable perspective on the extent and character of later changes in organisation of work associated with ‘emancipation’ of miners]
Navikas, Katrina, ‘Captain Swing in the North: the Carlisle Riots of 1830, History Workshop Journal, 71.1 (2011), 5-28
Pentland, Gordon, ‘“Betrayed by infamous spies”? The Commemoration of Scotland’s ‘Radical War’ of 1820’, Past and Present, 201 (2008), e-journal, 141-73
Pentland, Gordon, ‘The Challenge of Radicalism to 1832’, in T. M. Devine and Jenny Wormald, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Modern Scottish History (Oxford, 2012), e-book, pp. 439-54
Randall, Adrian J., ‘The Shearmen and the Wiltshire Outrages of 1802: Trade Unionism and Industrial Violence’, Social History, 7.3 (October 1982), pp. 283-304
Thompson, E. P., ‘Work, Time and Industrial Capitalism’, Past and Present, 38 (December 1967), pp. 56-97
Whatley, Christopher A., ‘“The Fettering Bonds of Brotherhood”: Combination and Labour Relations in the Scottish Coal Mining Industry, c. 1690-1775’, Social History, 12.2 (1987), pp. 139-154
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