Morality and the Market in Victorian Britain
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 9 April 1998
- ISBN 9780198206989
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages316 pages
- Size 242x163x23 mm
- Weight 620 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
The industrial revolution took place in Britain first, but the middle classes who had most to gain from rampant capitalism were held back by their Christian beliefs and sense of social duty. In this stimulating study of mid-Victorian ethics and the political economy, Geoffrey Searle argues that entrenched ideals of public virtue posed a much more effective challenge to market forces than the need to mitigate poverty. Highly readable and instructive, the book captures the ideological dilemma at the heart of nineteenth-century British history.
MoreLong description:
In this lively and interesting study, G. R. Searle tackles the conundrum at the heart of Victorian life: how could capitalist values be harmonized with Christian beliefs and with concepts of public morality and social duty? Middle-class Victorians who broadly welcomed industrial growth and embraced the doctrines of `political economy' were sensitive to the charge that theirs was a selfish and materialistic creed. Consequently, if public morality was to be reconciled with the market, wage-labour had to be distinguished from slavery, investment from speculation, and entrepreneurial acumen from dishonesty and fraud. These ideas about citizenship and public virtue offered a greater challenge to rampant capitalism than any pressing need to alleviate poverty. Through its exploration of `Victorian values', this book provides lessons for all those engaged in the present-day debate about the moral and social consequences of unleashing free market forces.
G. R. Searle offers here a series of discrete essays on the various manifestations of this problem ... Morality and the Market in Victorian Britain is a scrupulously nuanced book, in which a refined intelligence works on an impressive body of information to chart the issues at stake clearly. It is valuable to have the confrontation of the two principles brought out over such a wide canvas, and the book will be a useful starting point for further inquiry.
