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The Middlemost and the Milltowns - Bourgeois Culture and Politics in Early Industrial England (Hardcover)
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The Middlemost and the Milltowns - Bourgeois Culture and Politics in Early Industrial England (Hardcover)
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This book seeks to enrich our understanding of middle-class life in
England during the Industrial Revolution. For many years, questions
about how the middle classes earned (and failed to earn) money,
conducted their public and private lives, carried out what they
took to be their civic and religious duties, and viewed themselves
in relation to the rest of society have been largely neglected
questions. These topics have been marginalized by the rise of
social history, with its predominant focus on the political
formation of the working classes, and by continuing interest in
government and high politics, with its focus on the upper classes
and landed aristocracy.
This book forms part of the recent attempt, influenced by
contemporary ideas of political culture, to reassess the role,
composition, and outlook of the middle classes. It compares and
contrasts three Lancashire milltowns and surrounding parishes in
the early phase of textile industrialization--when the urbanizing
process was at its most rapid and dysfunctional, and class
relations were most fraught. The book's range extends from the
French Revolution to 1851, the year of the Great Exhibition, which
symbolized mid-century stability and prosperity.
The author argues that members of the middle class were pivotal in
the creation of this stability. He shows them creating themselves
as a class while being created as a class, putting themselves in
order while being ordered from above. The book shifts attention
from the search for a single elusive "class consciousness" to
demonstrate instead how the ideological leaders of the three
milltowns negotiated their power within the powerful forces of
capitalism and state-building. It argues that, at a time of intense
labor-capital conflict, it was precisely because of their
diversity, and their efforts to build bridges to the lower orders
and upper class, that the stability of the liberal-capitalist
system was maintained.
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