The Emergence of Stability in the Industrial City : Manchester, 1832–67 (Hardcover)

Introduction; Manchester: economic growth and social structure; The genesis of middle-class moral imperialism; The rejection of religion; The repudiation of useful knowledge; The resilience of unrespectable recreation; The continuities of working-class consciousness; The strategic contradictions of mid-nineteenth-century radicalism; The restraint of working class politics; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.