Esther M. Zimmer Lederberg
The Industrial Revolution in Great Britain

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References

Baines, Edward "History of The Cotton Manufacture in Great Britain:
    with a Notice of its Early History in the East,
    and in all the Quarters of the Globe",
H. Fisher, R. Fisher, and P. Jackson,
    London, 1835
Challinor, Raymond "A Radical Lawyer in Victorian England:
    W. P. Roberts and the Struggle for
    workers' rights",
I. B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.,
    London, 1990
Church, Roy "THE HISTORY OF THE BRITISH COAL INDUSTRY"
    Vol. 3 (1830-1913: Victorian Pre-eminence)
Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1986
Dickens, Charles "Hard Times", London, 1854
Dickens, Charles "Little Dorrit", London, 1855-57
Dickens, Charles "Martin Chuzzlewit", London, 1843-44
Dickens, Charles "Nicholas Nickleby", London, 1838-39
Engels, Friedrich "The Condition of the Working Class in England", English translation by
    Florence Kelley Wischnewetzky,
    New York, 1887
Fitton, R. S. "The Arkwrights: Spinners of fortune", Manchester University Press
    Manchester, 1989
Flinn, Michael W. "THE HISTORY OF THE BRITISH COAL INDUSTRY",
    Vol. 2 (1700-1830: The Industrial Revolution)
Clarendon Press
    Oxford, 1984
Greenwell, George C. "A Glossary of Terms used in the Coal Trade of Northumberland and Durham", M. Inst. C. E. Colliery Viewer
    London, 1888
Hiley, Michael "VICTORIAN WORKING WOMEN:
    Portraits from Life",
The Gordon Fraser Gallery, Ltd.
    London and Bedford, 1979
John, Angela V. "By the Sweat of Their Brow:
    Women Workers at Victorian Coal Mines",
Croom Helm, London, 1980
Reay, Barry "Watching Hannah
    Sexuality, Horror and Bodily De-formation
    in Victorian England",
Reaktion Books, Ltd.
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Ure, Andrew 3 "The Cotton Manufacture of Great Britain:
    Systematically Investigated",
Charles Knight, Ludgate Street,
    London, 1836

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1     Esther Lederberg was also interested in novels by Jane Austen, and there are those members of the Jane Austen Society of North America (JASNA) who are interested in which West Indian slave plantations can still be identified as having provided the wealth for those men to whom the women sought to sell themselves (men who bought and sold slaves as they bought their English wives and mistresses). In relations to this, it is important that Friedrich Engels pointed out (following the views of Thomas Carlyle, that "Even the relation between himself [the bourgeoisie, the capital owning class] and his wife is, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, mere 'cash payment'. Money determines the worth of a man; he is 'worth ten thousand pounds'." A viewpoint clearly and repeatedly mentioned by Jane Austen in all of her books.
2     Arthur Joseph Munby Papers (including his sketches of women and children colliery workers and an authentic description of their work using their language).
3    Ure dedicates this book to "The Marquess of Lansdowne". The Lansdown estates had thousands of Ireland's poorest tennants. Lansdowne used the Irish "blacklegs" as strike-breakers during the Great 1844 coal strike.
       Ure said the following in his dedication:
        "The reluctant tasks of our Colonial Slaves have been converted into the cheerful labours of freemen. Our complex and restrictive code of fiscal laws has been so simplified and liberalized as greatly to facilitate foreign trade; while the vast empire of China has been made freely accessible to its operations."
     The use of the word "freely" is significant here as Great Britain at this time was engaged in "gun-boat" diplomacy and wars, forcing China to accept opium from its colonial possession in India as a form of exchange and forcing control of Chinese customs duties in what are referred to as "unequal treaties". It is in this sense of the honest representation "freedom" that Ure speaks. Ure means free, unencumbered access, forced upon other peoples to impoverish them.

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