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

by Cronin, Bernard P.

• ISBN13: 9780754603139
• ISBN10: 075460313X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-12-01
• Publisher: Ashgate Pub Ltd

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

List of figures, boxes and tables	ix
Preface	xi
Abbreviations	xiv
Introduction	1	(10)
Nineteenth-century machine tools: the work of Maudslay, Nasmyth and Whitworth	11	(29)
The interaction of work and technology: the influence of F. W. Taylor and H. Braverman	40	(32)
Technology, changing definitions of skill and the use of child labour	72	(26)
Skill and the collapse of the craft apprentice system	98	(26)
Employers and the ideology of engineering management: the Great Strike of 1897-8 and its aftermath	124	(38)
Contradictions and struggle in ideas about a national system of technical education	162	(33)
Employers, the foundation of the City and Guilds of London Institute and government legislation	195	(38)
Industrial conflict and 19th-century technical and educational change	233	(24)
References and Bibliography	257	(34)
Index	291