Technology, Industrial Conflict and the Development of Technical Education in 19th-Century England

Technology, Industrial Conflict and the Development of Technical Education in 19th-Century England
ISBN-10
1351739395
ISBN-13
9781351739399
Category
History
Pages
282
Language
English
Published
2019-01-15
Publisher
Routledge
Author
Bernard P. Cronin

Description

This title was first published in 2001. Nineteenth-century employers played a crucial role in the training and education of young workers in England. This multi-disciplinary study traces the connection between problems of technical education development and the increasingly antagonistic relations with skilled workers, culminating in the Great Strike and Lockout of 1897. Cronin demonstrates that employers, dominated by economic short-termism, extended their hegemony beyond the boundaries of the factory gates. Their reluctance to endorse and sponsor technical education radically influenced the perception of technical education held by government and local authorities.

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