Ten Per Cent and No Surrender: The Preston Strike, 1853-1854

by H.I. Dutton and John Edward 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 cotton industry for seven months, and disrupted production in many other towns in Lancashire. Against the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521072573
• ISBN13: 9780521072571
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"