Record Number: 4285

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'For Dunfermline housepainter James Clunie, Das Kapital and the Wealth of Nations both demonstrated that industrialism inevitably increased economic inequality, the exploitation of labour and class conflict. To this The Descent of Man added "the great idea of human freedom... It brought out the idea that whether our children were with or without shoes was due to poverty arising from the administration of society".'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

unknown

Country:

Scotland

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Dunfermline

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

James Clunie

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

1889

Socio-Economic Group:

Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder

Occupation:

housepainter

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

Scotland

Country of Experience:

Scotland

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Adam Smith

Title:

Wealth of Nations

Genre:

Politics, economics

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

4285

Source:

Print

Author:

Jonathan Rose

Editor:

n/a

Title:

The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes

Place of Publication:

New Haven

Date of Publication:

2001

Vol:

n/a

Page:

300

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes, (New Haven, 2001), p. 300, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=4285, accessed: 21 December 2024

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Additional Comments:

See James Clunie 'Labour is my Faith', pp.30-31, no further ref. traceable in Rose