Labour and Society in Britain and America: Capitalism, Custom and Protest, 1780-1850

by Neville Kirk

A comparative study of workers, organized labour and society in 18th- and 19th-century Britain and America. It explains the formative influences on, and main characteristics of, the development of workers' movements in the two countries; it situates the labour movement's institutions in their wider social context; and it traces the interactions between economic and other hard facts of life and the conscious attempts of workers to shape their own destinies.

240 pages, Hardcover