The Factory Question and Industrial England, 1830-1860 (Hardcover)

Part I. Voices in a Debate, c.1830?1860: 1. Factory slavery; 2. Humanitarian opinion and rhetorics of reform; 3. Popular common sense, official enquiry and the state; 4. The responsibilities of employers; 5. The factory imagined; Part II. Factory Regulation, c.1840?1860: 6. Enforcement, resistance and compliance; 7. The ten-hour day; 8. A reformed factory system?; Conclusion.