Crewe: Railway Town, Company and People 1840–1914
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Chief Mechanical Engineer
chronicle
CME
Company Culture
Company Paternalism
company town sociology
Congregational Chapel
Crewe Chronicle
Crewe Guardian
Crewe Railway Works
Crewe Works
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GJR
Grand Junction Railway Company
Intimidation Affair
Liberal Works Men
LNWR Company
Local Liberal
Locomotive Superintendent
nineteenth-century labour
nonconformist politics
North Western Railway Company
paternalism
Primitive Methodist Chapel
Railway Company Paternalism
railway industry urbanisation case study
Railway Town
social structure analysis
South Ward
Staffordshire Advertiser
Town Hall
urban industrialisation
workforce paternalism
works
Works Men
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9781859280201
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 16 Mar 1995
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This is an important contribution to the new urban history, describing and analysing one of the best examples of a company town in nineteenth-century Europe. This archetypal railway town was built on a green-field site by a railway company in 1842-3. It was a major junction, an administrative centre and an important manufacturing centre. Thus it provides an ideal arena in which to study the relationship between company and people and the effects of this claustrophobic association on emerging economic and social structure and politics in the era of large-scale development and modernisation in Europe and America. Dianne Drummond applies the full range of modern urban-historical approaches in this work. It is a shining example of the ways in which new techniques in research, analysis and comparison can redraw the best-known histories. It will be essential reading for urban historians.
Diane K. Drummond, University of Birmingham, UK
