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    Family and Business during the Industrial Revolution

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    Author(s)
    Barker, Hannah
    Language
    English
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    Abstract
    Small businesses were at the heart of the economic growth and social transformation that characterized the Industrial Revolution in Britain. In towns across north-west England, shops and workshops dominated the streetscape, and helped to satisfy an increasing desire for consumer goods. Yet, despite their significance, we know surprisingly little about these firms and the people who ran them, for, while those engaged in craft-based manufacturing, retailing, and allied trades constituted a significant proportion of the urban population, they have been generally overlooked by historians. Instead, our view of the world of business is more usually taken up by narratives of particularly successful firms, and especially those involved in new modes of production. By examining some of the forgotten businesses of the Industrial Revolution, and the men and women who worked in them, this book presents a largely unfamiliar commercial world. Its approach, which spans economic, social, and cultural history, as well as encompassing business history and the histories of the emotions, space, and material culture, alongside studies of personal testimony, testatory practice, and property ownership, tests current understandings of gender, work, family, class, and power in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It provides us with new insights into the lives of ordinary men and women in trade, whose relatively mundane lives are easily overlooked, but who were central to the story of a pivotal period in British history.
    URI
    http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/28910
    Keywords
    Industrial Revolution; trade; work; families; business; religion; domestic space; towns; generation; gender; Heywood; Greater Manchester; Liverpool; London; Manchester
    DOI
    10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198786023.001.0001
    ISBN
    9780198786023
    OCN
    967267537
    Publisher
    Oxford University Press
    Publisher website
    https://global.oup.com/
    Publication date and place
    Oxford, UK, 2017
    Classification
    History and Archaeology
    c 1500 onwards to present day
    Pages
    280
    Public remark
    Relevant Wikipedia pages: Heywood, Greater Manchester - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heywood,_Greater_Manchester; Industrial Revolution - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Revolution; Liverpool - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liverpool; London - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London; Manchester - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester
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    http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
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    • This project received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 683680, 810640, 871069 and 964352.

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