This work examines the virtually ignored subject of working-class enterpreneurial activity during the 19th and early 20th centuries. By using a wide variety of oral and other evidence, the author shows that, far from being destroyed by urban industrial development, penny capitalism remained a widespread and vital part of working-day life. He shows that the survival of penny capitalism has major implications for the understanding of some of the most important issues under discussion in labour and social history.
- ISBN10 0751201006
- ISBN13 9780751201000
- Publish Date 17 December 1992 (first published 1 January 1983)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 20 July 2010
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Imprint Gregg Revivals
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 188
- Language English