Table of Contents

1. Industry and Unions; 2. Ten Per Cent (5 June–14 October 1853); 3. The Operatives; 4. The Masters; 5. Locked Out (15 October 1853–9 February 1854); 6. Council and Bench; 7. Guardians of the Poor; 8. Lord Palmerston; 9. The Press; 10. Defeat (10 February–13 May 1854); 11. Posterity.

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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.