Thesis
The machinery question
- Alternative title:
- conceptions of technical change in political economy during the industrial revolution, c. 1820 to 1840
- Abstract:
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The Machinery Question during the early Nineteenth Century was the question of the impact of technical progress on the total economy and society. The question was central to everyday relations between, master and workman, but it was also of major theoretical and ideological interest. The very technology at the basis of economy and society was a fundamental platform of challenge and struggle. In the early Nineteenth Century, it was political economy, the 'natural science' of economy and so...
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Authors
- Publication date:
- 1976
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
- Language:
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English
- Subjects:
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- Source identifiers:
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602330107
- Deposit date:
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2013-01-21
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- Copyright holder:
- Berg, Maxine L.
- Copyright date:
- 1976
- Notes:
- The digital copy of this thesis has been made available thanks to the generosity of Dr Leonard Polonsky
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