Research Catalog

Title

Crewe : railway town, company, and people, 1840-1914 / Diane K. Drummond.

Author

Drummond, Diane K.

Publication

Aldershot, Hants, England ; Brookfield, VT : Scolar Press, c1995.

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Description

xiv, 259 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

This study makes an important contribution to the new urban history, describing and analysing one of the best examples of a company town in nineteenth-century Europe. Crewe, the archetypal railway town, was built on a green-field site by a railway company in 1842-3. It was at a major junction, and was an important administrative and manufacturing centre. Thus, Crewe provides an ideal arena in which to study the relationship between company and people and the effects of this claustrophobic association on emerging economic and social structure and politics, in the era of large-scale development and modernization in Europe and America.

Subject

• Railroad equipment industry > Crewe (Crewe and Nantwich) > History
• Locomotive works > Crewe (Crewe and Nantwich) > History
• Railroad equipment industry > Crewe (Cheshire East) > History
• Locomotive works > Crewe (Cheshire East) > History
• Crewe (Cheshire East, England) > History

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [234]-250) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. A railway town -- growth and emerging social structure -- 2. The history of Crewe Railway Works and its workforce -- 3. Managerial strategies -- 4. Worker responses -- 5. Skill and the labour process in Crewe Works -- 6. The culture and politics of nonconformity -- 7. The politics of a railway town -- 8. Paternalism and politics.

ISBN

• 0718513827
• 185928020X :

LCCN

^^^94014921^

OCLC

30319067

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Harvard Library