Description:
Originally published in 1981, this book, unlike conventional textbooks concerning the Industrial Revolution, stresses the continuity of the labour experience in the 18th Century.
Review Quotes:
Original review of The Experience of Labour in Eighteenth-Century Industry:
'This book is one of the most important contributions to labour history...because of Rule's approach to understanding how work, culture and protest were intimately connected throughout the eighteenth century.' Joe Stanley, Society for the Study of Labour History.