Barbara Hammond: 7 books

The first installment of a pioneering trilogy that would include The Town Labourer (1917) and The Skilled Labourer (1919), this 1911 volume established the Hammonds as revisionist historians whose meticulous research and persuasive prose not only illuminated the past but could influence contemporary social debates.  Here the authors focused on the effects of enclosure measures on the rural poor.

In this 1917 volume, the second installment in a pioneering trilogy that includes The Village Labourer (1911) and The Skilled Labourer (1919), the authors shift from agricultural laborers to the urban working class. Here the Hammonds identify class exploitation as a pernicious effect of the Industrial Revolution and advocate governmental regulation as a fair solution.

In this 1919 volume, the final installment in a pioneering trilogy that began with The Village Labourer (1911) and continued in The Town Labourer (1917), the authors focus on the obsolescence of skilled labor in the face of technological change during the Industrial Revolution.  As in the previous two works, the Hammonds view their subject through a lens of class exploitation.

Originally published in 1923, this book covers the career of Lord Shaftesbury from his early career, through Peel's government and factory legislation, and onto religion and philanthropy. His name recalls great achievements in the reform of law; a powerful force in debates and contests, on the issue...

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Awakening and using intuitive abilities no longer causes eyebrows to rise. Women, in particular, are seeking information on how-to wake up their inner expert. Their interests range from chakra balancing to cosmic-ordering, future life progression to self-hypnosis with plenty in-between This book has...

One glaring lacuna in studies of Haitian Vodou is the scarcity of works exploring the connection between the religion and its main roots, traditional Yoruba religion. Discussions of Vodou very often seem to present the religion in vacuo, as a sui generis phenomenon that arose in Saint-Domingue and...