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Family and Business during the Industrial Revolution (Hardcover)
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Family and Business during the Industrial Revolution (Hardcover)
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC
BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford
Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and
selected open access locations. Small businesses were at the heart
of the economic growth and social transformation that characterized
the industrial revolution in Britain. In towns across north-west
England, shops and workshops dominated the streetscape, and helped
to satisfy an increasing desire for consumer goods. Yet despite
their significance, we know surprisingly little about these firms
and the people who ran them, for whilst those engaged in
craft-based manufacturing, retailing, and allied trades constituted
a significant proportion of the urban population, they have been
generally overlooked by historians. Instead, our view of the world
of business is more usually taken up by narratives of particularly
successful firms, and especially those involved in new modes of
production. By examining some of the forgotten businesses of the
industrial revolution, and the men and women who worked in them,
Family and Business during the Industrial Revolution presents a
largely unfamiliar commercial world. Its approach, which spans
economic, social, and cultural history, as well as encompassing
business history and the histories of the emotions, space, and
material culture, alongside studies of personal testimony,
testatory practice, and property ownership, tests current
understandings of gender, work, family, class, and power in the
late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It provides us with
new insights into the lives of ordinary men and women in trade,
whose relatively mundane lives are easily overlooked, but who were
central to the story of a pivotal period in British history.
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