Title: Life and labour in the nineteenth century : being the substance of lectures delivered at Cambridge University in the year 1919 to students of economics, among whom were officers of the Royal Navy and students from the army of the United States /
Authors: Fay, C. R. 1884-
Publisher: University Press,
Year: 1920
Subjects: Working class Great Britain; Nineteenth century.; Socialism Great Britain; Labor and laboring classes Great Britain.; Labor movement Great Britain; Great Britain Economic conditions.
Contents: I. The international background, 1815-1830. The old colonial system. Repression and reform at home. The influence of Jeremy Bentham. The spirit of association. Robert Owen. The origins of British socialism. Cobbett and Cobbett's England. The old Poor law and the new -- II. The political background from 1830 to the present day. Cobdenism. The Anti-corn law league. Chartism. The industrial scene, 1842. Mining operations. The historical basis of capitalism. A nation of shopkeepers. The co-operative movement since 1844. The revival of socialism. The remedies of the nineteenth century. The growth of corporate life.