In our times of permanent technological revolution, this is an excellent insight into the roots of industrial progress. Understanding rural workers' shock and their need to readapt to a new urban, factorial reality, and the white collar workers' dilemma of social security or entrepreneurship is achieved by this fascinating and important book.
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In our times of permanent technological revolution, this is an excellent insight into the roots of industrial progress. Understanding rural workers' shock and their need to readapt to a new urban, factorial reality, and the white collar workers' dilemma of social security or entrepreneurship is achieved by this fascinating and important book.
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Good. xii, 480 p., [3] leaves of plates (some folded): ill.; 21 cm. Hardcover. Fine binding and cover. Rebacked in later red cloth with red leather spine label. Scattered foxing, pencil marginalia. Diagrams, fold out tables, illustrations. Includes errata diagram for p. 116, tipped in. Final few leaves have browning on top margin. Andrew Ure (1778-1857) was an important business theorist and promoter of manufacturing and the factory system. Ure was a scientist and doctor by training. Ure had been a consulting chemist and visited numerous textile operations and other industries in England, Belgium and France. In 1840 he helped found the Pharmaceutical Society. Much of this work concerns the factory system in the textile, wool, flax, cotton, silk industries. The third book (430-481 pp. ) concerns the moral economy of the factory worker. An interesting early account of the industrial revolution in England. (DNB) Goldsmiths'-Kress, 29013.
