Labour and Society in Britain and America

Volume I Capitalism, custom and protest, 1780-1850: Part 1 The process of capitalist transformation and the roots of popular and working-class protest, 1780s-1850s: definitions and arguments; the process of capitalist transformation; the household - from domestic economy to outwork; the workshop - from custom to conflict; the factory - the shock of the new; agriculture - markets, custom and conflict; the process of capitalist transformation; politics, ideology and culture - class and citizenship. Part 2 Class and fragmentation - popular and working-class movements before the 1860s: the presence of class - radicalism from the 1820s to the 1840s; the United States; Britain; protest movements in Britain and the United States, 1820s-1840s - an assessment; fragmentation - labour movements from the 1840s to the 1860s; the United States; Britain; the roots of fragmentation - the United States and Britain. Volume II Challenge and accommodation: capitalist development and the transformation of labour from the 1870s to the 1920s; challenge and accommodation - patterns of workplace organization and protest from the 1860s to the 1920s; integrated citizenship and working class emancipation - politics, ideology and culture from the mid-19th century to the 1920s; advances and retreats - the inter-war years.