Factory Production in Nineteenth-Century Britain - The Victorian Archives Series

Freedgood, Elaine (edited); Poovey, Mary (edited)

ISBN 10: 0195161017 / ISBN 13: 9780195161014

Published by Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York, 2003

About this Item

Brand New. First Edition / First Print (number line on copyright page 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1). Hardback copy in dark green cloth boards with gold gilt lettering to front and spine, no dustjacket as issued. 321pp. (51/4). Seller Inventory # ABE-1653113602874

Bibliographic Details

Title: Factory Production in Nineteenth-Century ...

Publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York

Publication Date: 2003

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

Edition: 1st Edition

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Synopsis:

1ST EDITION, green cloth, issued without dust jacket, published by Oxford University Press, NY, 2003. Includes chapters on Machines and Management; Childhood and Domesticity; Limbs and Lives; The Humanity of the Handmade; Manual Labor and National Independence. The author states in the Preface: "The texts on factory production collected in this volume are intended for use by undergraduate and graduate students studying the literature and history of Victorian Britain. The first factories are the subject of these works and for this reason the works may also be valuable to students of industrial development, of the history of economics, of urbanization, of women's work, and of the history of childhood, to name just a few of the topics and issues that intersect with industrialization and the factory in its most obvious material effect. The factory system is central to any conception of modernity; the documents collected here suggest how unsystematic that system was in its origins and early development."

About the Author:

Elaine Freedgood, Associate Professor of English, New York University.