Research Catalog

Title

Family and business during the Industrial Revolution / Hannah Barker.

Author

Barker, Hannah, 1967-

Publication

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.

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Details

Description

viii, 262 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"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 whilst 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, Family and Business During the Industrial Revolution 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."--

Alternative Title

Family & business during the Industrial Revolution

Subject

• Industrial revolution > England, North West
• Small business > England, North West > History
• Industrial revolution
• Small business
• HISTORY / Modern / General
• England > England, North West

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-254) and index.

Contents

1. Wealth-Holding and Investment / Mina Ishizu -- 2. Family and Inheritance -- 3. Family and Business -- 4. Cooperation, Duty, and Love -- 5. Home, Business, and Household / Jane Hamlett -- 6. Family and Household.

Call Number

JFE 20-545

ISBN

• 9780198786023
• 0198786026

LCCN

2016943842

OCLC

953222359

Author

Barker, Hannah, 1967- author.

Title

Family and business during the Industrial Revolution / Hannah Barker.

Publisher

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-254) and index.

Local Note

AUTH: U. MANCHESTER. SMALL BUSINESSES AS HEART OF ECONOMIC GROWTH IN 19TH CENT. NORTHWEST ENGLAND.

Spine Title

Family & business during the Industrial Revolution

Research Call Number

JFE 20-545