The Struggle for Market Power
The Struggle for Market Power
During the Industrial Revolution, class relations were defined largely through the struggle to control the terms of exchange in the market. Integrating aspects of economic and social history as well as industrial sociology, this book examines the sources of the perception of the market on the part of both capital and labour and the elaboration of their alternative market ideologies. Of particular import is the argument that working-class culture expressed a fundamental acceptance of the utility of the market, a point that is supported by a detailed analysis of the labour process, workplace bargaining, and early-nineteenth-century trade unionism. The determination of market relations in this era therefore became a function of both class power and ideological prescription.
Product details
June 1991Hardback
9780521391467
242 pages
238 × 160 × 22 mm
0.482kg
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Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1. Capital and credit
- 2. The perception of the market and industrial policy
- 3. Managerial capitalism
- 4. Family, community, and the labor market
- 5. Work and the ideology of the market
- 6. Religion, ideology, and trade unions
- 7. The transformation of market relations: Tommy Hepburn's union, 1831
- 8. Epilogue: class struggle and market power
- Conclusion: the labor process and the market
- Appendix
- Select bibliography
- Index.
