The Origins of Modern English Society

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Dedication......Page 5
It is not more than seventy or eighty years since, that a few humble mechanics in Lanarkshire, distinguished by scarcely anything more than mechanical ingenuity and perseverance of character, succeeded in forming a few, but important mechanical combinations, the effect of which has been to revolutionize the whole of British society, and to influence, in a marked degree, the progress of civilization in every quarter of the globe.‘A MEMBER OF THE MANCHESTER ATHENAEUM’, 1844......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Introduction to the 2002 Edition......Page 9
Preface to the First Edition......Page 13
ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THE FOOTNOTES......Page 16
I  The More Than Industrial Revolution......Page 18
1.  A CLASSLESS HIERARCHY......Page 31
2.  PROPERTY AND PATRONAGE......Page 49
3.  A DYNAMIC SOCIETY......Page 64
1.  SOCIETY AND THE ANCILLARY CAUSES......Page 69
2.  SOCIETY AND THE ECONOMIC FACTORS......Page 77
3.  THE PROBLEM OF TIMING......Page 97
1.  THE RISE IN THE SCALE OF ORGANIZATION......Page 104
2.  ‘PETTY’S LAW’......Page 118
1.  THE REVOLUTION IN LIVING STANDARDS......Page 126
2.  INDUSTRIALISM AND THE FAMILY......Page 138
3.  URBANIZATION AND SOCIETY......Page 148
VI  The Birth of Class......Page 161
1.  INDUSTRIALISM AND CLASS CONFLICT......Page 162
2.  ‘THE ABDICATION ON THE PART OF THE GOVERNORS’......Page 167
3.  THE MIDWIFE OF CLASS......Page 177
4.  THE DELAYED BIRTH......Page 188
VII  The Struggle between the Ideals......Page 197
1.  THE ENTREPRENEURIAL IDEAL......Page 199
2.  THE WORKING-CLASS IDEAL......Page 207
3.  THE REVIVAL OF THE ARISTOCRATIC IDEAL......Page 213
4.  THE FORGOTTEN MIDDLE CLASS......Page 226
VIII  The Triumph of the Entrepreneurial Ideal......Page 241
1.  THE MORAL REVOLUTION......Page 242
2.  THE BATTLE FOR THE MIND......Page 257
3.  THE BATTLE FOR THE STATE......Page 272
4.  THE PROFESSIONALIZATION OF GOVERNMENT......Page 281
IX  The Rise of a Viable Class Society......Page 297
1.  THE ROLE OF RELIGION......Page 302
2.  THE INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF THE MIDDLE CLASS......Page 317
3.  THE INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF THE WORKING CLASS......Page 330
X  Entrepreneurial Society: Ideal and Reality......Page 353
1.  PROGRESS AND POVERTY......Page 354
2.  THE EMERGING PLUTOCRACY......Page 370
3.  THE DECLINE OF THE ENTREPRENEURIAL IDEAL......Page 377
Index......Page 393