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Ten Per Cent and No Surrender: The Preston Strike, 1853-1854
Ten Per Cent and No Surrender The Preston Strike 18531854
Author: H. I. Dutton, J. E. King
This is a study of industrial unrest in the cotton industry at a time when the economy was on the threshold of mid-Victorian prosperity, and when Chartism was still much more than a memory. The town of Preston was the crucial battlefield, and here the masters and men fought out a bitter trial of strength. The strike of 1853-54 closed the Preston...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780521072571
ISBN-10: 0521072573
Publication Date: 9/4/2008
Pages: 288
Edition: 1
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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