Preface
Chronology
Introduction
ONE. LOOKING INSIDE
1. Tourists
George Dodd, A Day at a Hat-Factory (1843)
Harriet Martineau, What There Is in a Button (1852)
Lady Bell, The Process of Ironmaking (1907)
2. Investigators
Charles Babbage, On the Method of Observing Manufactories
(1832)
Emilia Dilke, The Industrial Position of Women (1893)
3. Historians
Edward Baines, Jr., Inventions in Spinning Machines (1835)
TWO. MACHINES AND MANAGEMENT
4. Theory
Adam Smith, On the Division of Labor (1776)
Robert Owen, from A Statement Regarding the New Lanark
Establishment (1812)
David Ricardo, On Machinery (1821)
Thomas Carlyle, Captains of Industry (1843)
Karl Marx, The Factory (1867)
5. Practice
George Beaumont, from The Beggar's Complaint (1813)
Charles Babbage, from On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures
(1832)
Andrew Ure, General View of Manufacturing Industry (1835)
Francis Place, Hand Loom Weavers and Factory Workers: A Letter to
James Turner, Cotton Spinner (1835)
The Effects of Machinery on Manual Labor, and on the Distribution
of the Produce of Industry (1842)
THREE. CALCULATING LOSSES
6. Childhood and Domesticity
James Phillips Kay-Shuttleworth, from The Moral and Physical
Condition of the Working Classes (1832)
Peter Gaskell, Separation of Families (1833)
Thomas Macaulay, Speech on the Ten Hours Act: Delivered in the
House of Commons on the 22d of May, 1846 (1846)
7. Limbs and Lives
Richard Oastler, Yorkshire Slavery (1830)
Charles Wing, Parliamentary Testimony on Child Labour (1837)
Friedrich Engels, from Single Branches of Industry (1845)
Henry Morley, Ground in the Mill (1854)
John Ward (O'Neil), From His Diary (1860)
FOUR. BY HAND
8. The Humanity of the Handmade
John Ruskin, The Nature of Gothic (1853)
William Morris, The Revival of Handicraft: An Article in the
"Fortnightly Review," November 1888 (1888)
9. "Manual" Labor and National Independence
Mahatma Gandhi, The Duty of Spinning (1921)
Hand-Spinning Again (1921)
The Secret of Swaraj (1921)
Glossary
Contributor's Biographies
Suggestions for Further Reading
Index
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