Captain Swing

Eric Hobsbawm

ISBN 10: 1781681805 / ISBN 13: 9781781681800

Published by Verso Aug 2014, 2014

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Neuware - In our increasingly mechanized age, the Swing revolts are a timely record of the relationship between technological advance, labour and poverty.With the onset of the Industrial Revolution, capitalism swept from the cities into the countryside, and tensions mounted between agricultural workers and employers. From 1830 on, a series of revolts, known as the 'Swing' shook England to its core. Landowners wanting to make their land more profitable started to use machinery to harvest crops, causing widespread misery among rural communities. CAPTAIN SWING reveals the background to that upheaval, from its rise to its fall, and shines a.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Captain Swing
• Publisher: Verso Aug 2014
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1781681805
• ISBN 13: 9781781681800
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 208W x 136H x 32D millimeters 208 millimeters width by 136 millimeters height by 32 millimeters depth
• Weight: 477 grams

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Synopsis

Sir Your name is down amongst the Black hearts in the Black Book and this is to advise you and the like of you, who are Parson Justasses, to make your wills Ye have been the Blackguard Enemies of the People on all occasions, Ye have not yet done as ye ought – Swing In our increasingly mechanized age, the Swing revolts are a timely record of the relationship between technological advance, labour and poverty. With the onset of the Industrial Revolution, capitalism swept from the cities into the countryside, and tensions mounted between agricultural workers and employers. From 1830 on, a series of revolts, known as the "Swing" shook England to its core. Landowners wanting to make their land more profitable started to use machinery to harvest crops, causing widespread misery among rural communities. Captain Swing reveals the background to that upheaval, from its rise to its fall, and shines a light on the people who tried to change the world and save their livelihoods.

About the Author

Eric Hobsbawm was born in Alexandria in 1917 and educated in Vienna, Berlin, London and Cambridge. He is the author of numerous classic works of history. He died in October 2012.

George Rudé was a distinguished Marxist historian and renowned expert on eighteenth-century history. He died in 1993.