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| Introduction | p. vii |
| The Great Disruption | |
| A New Kind of Tyrant | p. 1 |
| The Three Factors | p. 5 |
| The New Capitalism | p. 8 |
| The Market, and the Inventors | p. 13 |
| Labour on the Land | p. 20 |
| The Transformation of Industry | p. 25 |
| The Victims: Speenhamland | p. 33 |
| From the First Census to Peterloo (1801-1820) | |
| The People are Numbered | p. 42 |
| In the Shadow of War | p. 48 |
| Agriculture under the Corn Laws | p. 64 |
| The Rise of Manufacture | p. 73 |
| The First "Over-Production" Crisis | p. 101 |
| Pioneers of Reform | p. 109 |
| The Lowest Depth (1821-1834) | |
| Rural England in the 'Twenties | p. 125 |
| Degradation of the Labourer | p. 133 |
| Un-Natural History of the Slum | p. 147 |
| The Radical Reformers | p. 157 |
| The Railway and Steamship | p. 172 |
| The Influence of the Economists | p. 179 |
| On the Verge of Revolution (1833-1849) | |
| A Late Harvest | p. 201 |
| The First Factory Acts | p. 206 |
| The New Poor Law | p. 216 |
| The General Strike | p. 227 |
| The Chartists | p. 237 |
| End of the Corn Law | p. 248 |
| The World's Workshop (1850-1866) | |
| Employment and Education | p. 262 |
| Problems of Peace and War | p. 272 |
| The Completion of Free Trade | p. 280 |
| Round with the Factory Inspectors | p. 295 |
| The Liberal State (1867-1885) | |
| Toward Democracy | p. 312 |
| The Trade-Union Compromise | p. 331 |
| Co-operation, Thrift, Conciliation | p. 340 |
| The Collapse of Agriculture | p. 352 |
| A Trade Crisis Analysed | p. 364 |
| The Awakening (1886-1900) | |
| The "Residuum" Discovered | p. 382 |
| The "Sweating System" | p. 399 |
| At the Dock-Gates | p. 410 |
| Voices of the New Spirit | p. 415 |
| Resurrection | p. 428 |
| Organization | p. 440 |
| The New Age | |
| Population and Wealth | p. 458 |
| New Lamps for Old | p. 470 |
| Agricultural Revival | p. 481 |
| Crusade of the Life-Savers | p. 487 |
| Unemployment, Strikes, the Minimum Wage | p. 505 |
| Conclusion | p. 538 |
| Appendices | |
| Population and Emigration | p. 549 |
| Early Estimates | |
| United Kingdom, 1821-1911 | |
| England and Wales, 1801-1911 | |
| The Chief Industrial Counties | |
| The British Empire | |
| Employment and Trade Unionism | p. 556 |
| Occupations, England and Wales, 1901 | |
| Trade Union Membership, United Kingdom, 1901 | |
| Census of Production, 1907 | p. 560 |
| Workers included | |
| Net Output | |
| Industrial Output by Groups of Trades | |
| Aggregate Value of United Kingdom Produce | |
| Exports and Imports | |
| Capital, Income, and Savings | |
| Distribution of Inoome and Capital - Over-Sea Investments | p. 568 |
| International Commerce | p. 573 |
| Exports, 1854-1912 | |
| Exports of United Kingdom, United States, Germany, and France, 1880-1913 | |
| Britain's Best Customers, 1885-1911 | |
| Wages and Prices | p. 576 |
| Prices, 1818-1910 (Sauerbeck) | |
| Purchasing Power of [pound]1, 1895-1912 | |
| The Course of Wages, 1780-1899 (Bowley), 1879-1910 (Board of Trade, and G. H. Wood) | |
| Unemployment | |
| Wages in the Cotton Trade, 1806-1906 (Wood) | |
| Births and Deaths, Wealth and Poverty | p. 582 |
| A Short Bibliography | p. 583 |
| Index | p. 595 |
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