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Introduction

1 Capital and credit

Fixed capital and working costs

Cash and credit

Markets and output

2 The perception of the market and industrial policy

Supply and demand

Costs and prices

Competition and collusion

3 Managerial capitalism

Ownership

Subcontracting

Management

4 Family, community, and the labor market

The social impact of the labor market

Paternalism and the market

5 Work and the ideology of the market

The structure of work

Bargaining and market relations

Bargaining, custom, and pit culture

6 Religion, ideology, and trade unions

The Established Church and the distributionof Nonconformity

Methodism and its adherents

Methodism and trade unionism

7 The transformation of market relations: Tommy Hepburn's union, 1831

The formation of Hepburn's union

The construction of new market relations

8 Epilogue: class struggle and market power

The failure of Hepburn's unionThe control of both production and the movement of labor

Mid-Victorian reformism and the objectification ofmarket relations

Conclusion: the labor process and the market

Appendix

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Index