Introduction : industry as culture in nineteenth-century Britain
One co-operative body : the rhetoric of the factory system
Beautiful combinations : abstraction and technological beauty in the works of Charles Babbage
A debilitated race : savageness in social investigation and design theory
Appropriate beauty : the work of ornament in the age of mechanical reproduction
What you ought to learn : industrial culture and the Exhibition of 1851
Only a machine before : manliness and mechanism in Ruskin and Morris.
Manufacturing culture : vindications of early Victorian industry by Joseph Bizup. ISBN 0813922461. Published by University of Virginia Press in 2003. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.