The Struggle for Market Power: Industrial Relations in the British Coal Industry, 1800–1840
Cambridge University Press, 3/29/1991
EAN 9780521391467, ISBN10: 0521391466
Hardcover, 242 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm
Language: English
During the Industrial Revolution, class relations were defined largely through the struggle to control the terms of exchange in the market. Integrating aspects of economic and social history as well as industrial sociology, this book examines the sources of the perception of the market on the part of both capital and labour and the elaboration of their alternative market ideologies. Of particular import is the argument that working-class culture expressed a fundamental acceptance of the utility of the market, a point that is supported by a detailed analysis of the labour process, workplace bargaining, and early-nineteenth-century trade unionism. The determination of market relations in this era therefore became a function of both class power and ideological prescription.
Acknowledgments
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Introduction
1. Capital and credit
2. The perception of the market and industrial policy
3. Managerial capitalism
4. Family, community, and the labor market
5. Work and the ideology of the market
6. Religion, ideology, and trade unions
7. The transformation of market relations
Tommy Hepburn's union, 1831
8. Epilogue
class struggle and market power
Conclusion
the labor process and the market
Appendix
Select bibliography
Index.