Table of Contents

Preface; Introduction; 1. Changing attitudes to political economy in the working-class press 1816–34; 2. The need for a working-class political economy; 3. Charles Hall and Robert Owen: anti-capitalist and socialist political economy before the Ricardian socialists; 4. Ricardian socialists/Smithian socialists: what's in a name?; 5. The theory of labour exploitation and the working-class press 1816–30; 6. The theory of labour exploitation and the working-class press 1830–34; 7. Early socialist political economy and the theory of capitalist crisis; 8. The popular political economy of crisis 1816–34; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.