Class Formation and Urban Industrial Society: Bradford, 1750-1850 Book

Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; Introduction;

Part I. From Traditional Community to Industrial City: Bradford: 1750-1850:

1. Proindustrialization in Bradford: 1750-1810;
2. The crisis of the traditional community;
3. The urban-industrial revolution: 1810-1850;
4. The development of the capitalist city: 1810-1850;
5. The industrial city and the traditional elite;

Part II. The Emergence of a Liberal Entrepreneurial Society and the Rise of an Urban-Industrial Bourgeoisie: 1825-1850:
6. The rising generation of urban entrepreneurs;
7. The making of the self-made man;
8. The life of the self-denying entrepreneur;
9. The promise of a liberal entrepreneurial society;
10. The culture of voluntarism: religious association;
11. The culture of voluntarism: secular association;
12. the politics of liberalism;

Part III. The Crisis of Proletarianization and the Stabilization of the Urban-Industrial World: 1825-1850:
13. The process of proletarianization;
14. from self-reliance to public relief: the bourgeois response to working-class poverty;
15. Urban-industrial paternalism and the Tory radical revival;
16. The emergence of working-class culture and consciousness;
17. The challenge of Chartism;
18. The foundations of the mid-Victorian liberal consensus; Epilogue; Appendices; Index.