Emergence of Stability in the Industrial City
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Fustian Cutters
Industrial Muse
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Manchester Chartist
Manchester Mechanics
Manchester Middle Class
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mid-Victorian Manchester politics
moral reform movements
nineteenth-century social history
Penny Banks
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Physical Force Chartism
Police Deposition
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Post-chartist Periods
radicalism
radicalism and consensus
Royal Manchester Institution
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urban political culture
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Working Class Attitudes
Working Class Culture
Working Class Politics
Working Class Radicalism
Working Class Religion
Working Men
working-class consciousness
Young Men
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- ISBN 9781859282762
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Mar 1996
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The rapid eclipse of Chartism, and the relative tranquility of the period 1848-67 has been one of the most enduring puzzles of nineteenth-century British history. This book takes a fresh look at this conundrum, treating the period between the Reform Acts of 1832 and 1867 as a coherent whole for the first time. It suggests that previous depictions of 1848 as a watershed in British history have both exaggerated the nature of the transitions which occurred at mid-century, and have over-estimated both the collapse of radical attitudes and the fading of working-class resentment. The experiences of the Manchester working class show that poverty, unemployment and hardship persisted through the mid-Victorian boom. While some workers may have taken advantage of economic opportunities and the various movements of social and moral reform promoted by the middle class to acquire respectability, in general, attempts at middle-class ’moral imperialism’ brought only marginal changes to popular culture and attitudes. Instead, it is argued, the roots of the radical collapse and of political stability lie elsewhere: in the initial failure of radical leaders to sustain a firm consensus on effective strategies of reform, and in changes in the political culture of the mid-century city which closed off spaces in which independent working-class politics could continue to function. In the context of the most important industrial city of the era, this study provides a wide-ranging analysis of the complex forces which forged the uneasy compromise on which mid-nineteenth century stability rested.
Martin Hewitt, Trinity and All Saints College, University of Leeds, UK
