The machinery question and the making of political economy, 1815-1848
Maxine Berg (Author)
The book will interest teachers and students of British social and economic history, the history of economic thought and the history of science and technology.
Print Book, English, 1982
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Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [England], 1982
History
379 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9780521287593, 9780521227827, 0521287596, 0521227828
9601000
PART ONE: The machinery question
The age of machinery
The progress of the machine
The advent of political economy PART TWO: The political economy of machinery
Ricardo's chapter
Political economy and the division of labour
Political economy and capital PART THREE: A science of machinery
The scientific movement
The order of the factory PART FOUR: The politics of machinery
The export of machinery
The handloom weavers PART FIVE: The social critics of machinery
Tories
Radicals
Social reformers EPILOGUE: Beyond machinery
Engels and Mill
Revision of the author's thesis, Oxford, 1976
First published 1980