This book describes the working and living conditions of workers, especially those in the cutlery and tools, steel and engineering trades, in Sheffield between 1850 and 1939. Housing and public heath, real wages and cyclical variations in wages, and trade union history, including the well-known "outrages", receive particular attention. Sheffield produced for a world market and its prosperity was affected by world economic conditions, the rise of rival producers overseas and the armaments booms of the two world wars among other factors. As the largest industrial city in Britain, with a high proportion of well-organized skilled male workers, Sheffield became the first major city in Britain to be controlled by Labour and the influence of its social structure on local and national political representation, first through the Liberal Party and then through Labour, forms a major theme.
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Höhe: 147 mm
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978-0-7512-0215-1 (9780751202151)
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Sheffield and Its Industry at the Mid-Century: Sheffield in 1850; The Sheffield light trades at the onset of the age of steam; The steel industry before Bessemer; Mid-Victorian Expansion and the Great Depression, 1850-1893: Sheffield at the time of its industrial revolution; The end of the golden age of the Sheffield trades; The birth of the modern steel industry; The End of an Epoch,1893 -1914: Sheffield at the close of the age of liberalism; The light industries in transition; Steel, engineering and armaments; The War and the Inter-War Period, 1914-39: Sheffield in war and in depression; Boom and slump in the heavy industries; The light trades in depression; Appendices: Appendix A: earnings in the Sheffield industries, 1914 -39; Appendix B: statistical appendix.
