Machine derived contents note: Acknowledgments -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I. From Traditional Community to Industrial City: Bradford: 1750-1850: 1. Proindustrialization in Bradford: 1750-1810 -- 2. The crisis of the traditional community -- 3. The urban-industrial revolution: 1810-1850 -- 4. The development of the capitalist city: 1810-1850 -- 5. The industrial city and the traditional elite -- Part II. The Emergence of a Liberal Entrepreneurial Society and the Rise of an Urban-Industrial Bourgeoisie: 1825-1850: 6. The rising generation of urban entrepreneurs -- 7. The making of the self-made man -- 8. The life of the self-denying entrepreneur -- 9. The promise of a liberal entrepreneurial society -- 10. The culture of voluntarism: religious association -- 11. The culture of voluntarism: secular association -- 12. the politics of liberalism -- Part III. The Crisis of Proletarianization and the Stabilization of the Urban-Industrial World: 1825-1850: 13. The process of proletarianization -- 14. from self-reliance to public relief: the bourgeois response to working-class poverty -- 15. Urban-industrial paternalism and the Tory radical revival -- 16. The emergence of working-class culture and consciousness -- 17. The challenge of Chartism -- 18. The foundations of the mid-Victorian liberal consensus -- Epilogue -- Appendices -- Index
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West Yorkshire (Metropolitan County). Bradford Social life, history
