Tables of Contents for Escape from the Market

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1. Introduction: the myth of the Lancashire labour market

Part I. Labour Market Failure?: 2. Custom against the market: the early labour market

3. Principals and agents: the labour market into the second generation

4. Who's minding the mill? The supervision problem

Part II. The Economics of Piece-Rate Bargaining: 5. The fair wage model

Part III. How Did Labour Markets Really Work?: 6. Fair and unfair wages: 1825-1850

7. Short hours and seniority in the 'hungry 'forties'

8. Rules and standards: wage lists in Lancashire

Part IV. Conclusion: 9. More lessons from the cotton mills.