England in Transition (1931) examines life and work in eighteenth-century England, a time of massive upheaval as the Industrial Revolution changed every aspect of the country’s economic and social conditions.
1. Old England: A Golden Age?
2. Defoes England: London and the Country
3. The Prelude to the Machine Age
4. The Middle Years, or the New
Humanitarianism
5. The Village in Transition
6. The Coming of Industrialism
7. Child Labour and Apprenticeship
8. Some Conclusions
