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The aim of this lavishly illustrated book is to provide an in-depth study of the many medieval peasant houses still standing in Midland villages, and of their historical context. In particular, the combination of tree-ring and radiocarbon dating, detailed architectural study and documentary research illuminates both their nature and their status. The results are brought together to provide a new and detailed view of the medieval peasant house, resolving the contradiction between the archaeological and architectural evidence, and illustrating how its social organisation developed in the period before we have extensive documentary evidence for the use of space within the house.
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The Midlands, 1984. Two young lads are about to learn what it is to be a miner, to be accepted into the close camaraderie and initiated into a unique workplace where sweat, toil, collapsing roofs and explosions are all to be met with bawdy humour. London, 1984. A conflicted Tory MP, a brash American CEO and an eccentric maverick are the face of a radical Conservative government preparing to do battle with the most powerful workforce, the miners. As the two sides clash, the miners fight for their livelihoods and families, and the government for its vision of a free Britain. Together they change the fabric of the nation forever. Wonderland by Beth Steel premiered at the Hampstead Theatre, London, in June 2014. Beth Steel received the Evening Standard Charles Wintour Award for Most Promising Playwright 2014.
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• Part 1 The rise of the Yeoman and the landlord's agricultural revolution: enclosure in the South Midlands-- enclosure and depopulation-- the rise of the Yeoman-- the disappearance of the Yeoman in the open fields.
• Part 2 Enclosure and productivity growth: the adoption of modern methods-- yields and output-- employment and labour productivity-- rent increases and farm efficiency.
• Part 3 Capitalist agriculture and productivity growth: Yeomen, capitalist farmers and the growth in yields-- labour shedding and the growth in productivity.
• Part 4 Agrarian change and industrialization: the failure of proto-industry and the origin of the surplus labour economy-- the agricultural revolution and the growth of GDP.
• Part 5 The distribution of the benefits of technical progress: who gained from the agricultural revolution: the Yeoman alternative.
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This book traces the shift from medieval to modern institutions in English agriculture. It explores their importance for productivity growth, income distribution, and the contribution of agriculture to British economic development. Robert C. Allen's study shows that, contrary to the general assumption of many historians, small-scale farmers in the open-field system were responsible for a considerable proportion of the productivity growth achieved between the middle ages and the 19th century. The process of enclosure and the replacement of these yeomen by large-scale tenant farming relying on wage labour had relatively little impact on the agricultural contribution to economic development during the industrial revolution. Enclosures and large farms enriched landowners without benefiting consumers, workers, or farmers. Thoroughly grounded in the archival sources, and underpinned by rigorous economic analysis, "Enclosure and the Yeoman" is a scholarly reassessment of the history of English agriculture.
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All is not well in the Humble hive. Thirty-five-year-old Felix Humble is a Cambridge astro-physicist in search of a unified field theory. Following the sudden death of his father, Felix returns to his middle England home and his difficult and demanding mother.
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• 1. Reach Out I'll Be There: Pop Music, Work, and Society2. Stayin' Alive at McTells3. I Got All My Sisters with Me: Music and Community4. Music, Machines, and Clocks: Songs and the Senses of Alienation5. You Can Tell by the Way I Use My Walk: Music as Aid to Work and Critique of Taylorism6. Pop Songs and the Hidden Injuries (and Joys) of Class7. Collective Resistance on the Shop Floor8. Dotted Lines on the Shop Floor: Cultural Connections with Collective Resistance9. Conclusion: Pop Music, Culture, and ResistanceAppendix: An Ethnography of Working and of MusickingReferences Index.
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In Songs of the Factory, Marek Korczynski examines the role that popular music plays in workers' culture on the factory floor. Reporting on his ethnographic fieldwork in a British factory that manufactures window blinds, Korczynski shows how workers make often-grueling assembly-line work tolerable by permeating their workday with pop music on the radio. The first ethnographic study of musical culture in an industrial workplace, Songs of the Factory draws on socio-musicology, cultural studies, and sociology of work, combining theoretical development, methodological innovation, and a vitality that brings the musical culture of the factory workers to life. Music, Korczynski argues, allows workers both to fulfill their social roles in a regimented industrial environment and to express a sense of resistance to this social order. The author highlights the extensive forms of informal collective resistance within this factory, and argues that the musically informed culture played a key role in sustaining these collective acts of resistance. As well as providing a rich picture of the musical culture and associated forms of resistance in the factory, Korczynski also puts forward new theoretical concepts that have currency in other workplaces and in other rationalized spheres of society.
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• 1. Introduction - Jon Stobart & Neil Raven--
• Part 1 - The Midlands - an industrial region--
• 2. Industrial and urban change in the Midlands - Neil Raven & Tristram Hooley--
• 3. Industrialisation and the service economy - Andrew Hann--
• 4. Industry, investment and consumption - Christine Wiskin--
• 5. Networks and hinterlands - Neil Raven & Jon Stobart--
• 6. Towns and industries - Barrie Trinder--
• Part 2 - Industrialisation and Midlands towns--
• 7. New towns of the industrial coalfields - Jon Stobart & Barrie Trinder--
• 8. Industrialisation and social change - John Smith--
• 9. Industrial and urban growth in Nottingham, 1680-1840 - Joyce Ellis--
• 10. Elite networking and the formation of an industrial small town - Peter Clark--
• 11. On the margins of industrialisation - Leonard Schwarz--
• Part 3 - The wider world--
• 12. National and international trade and the Midlands economy - Malcolm Wanklyn--
• 13. The growth of urban industrial - Hilde Greefs, Bruno Blonde & Peter Clark--
• 14. Towns, industries and regions - Steve King.
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In recent years, traditional interpretations of the processes of industrialisation in Britain have been superceded by a more subtle, macro-economic, gradualist understanding of industrialisation. In particular, commentators have now come to consider the importance of geography and the notion that historical change occurs in space as well as time. Concentrating on the Midlands, this book, drawing on a wealth of original research by an eminent collection of scholars, seeks to develop a fresh understanding of the complex range of urban industrial activity taking place in England during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Focusing on the concomitant urbanisation, it explains how regional urban systems both shaped and responded to processes of industrialisation and how urban systems influenced growth and raised the potential for development in particular locales.
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While the cereal agriculture of medieval Europe has been studied exhaustively, the pastoral resources and livestock husbandry of medieval estates have been seriously neglected. Kathleen Biddick's examination of one estate, Peterborough Abbey, during several decades before and after 1100 and the first decade after 1300, brings a new balance to the subject of the medieval economy. Her pioneering methodology and the conclusions she reaches will interest archaeologists and agricultural historians as well as anthropologists, economists, and historians of early European development. Drawing on the archival records of the abbey, an estate that straddled the 'classic' open-field agriculture of the English Midlands and the more pastorally-oriented farming of the English peat fens, Biddick describes in great detail how these farmers managed their herds and consumed and marketed livestock products such as meat, wool, hides, milk, and cheese. Commitment to conserving consumption strategies did not mean that the Abbey resisted market involvement and technological innovation. Large numbers of work and cart horses indicate the estate's economic interest in speedy haulage.Cereal yields, where they are calculable, compare favorably to the high-yielding demesnes of parts of Norfolk, the most agriculturally advanced region of medieval England. By showing how the Abbey coordinated its resources to enhance diversity and flexibility, "The Other Economy" enlarges our understanding of agrarian lordship and political control over resources in the medieval economy.
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