Poverty and Protest as Public Discourse during the Cotton Crisis

Rachel Broady is Lecturer at Liverpool John Moores University, UK.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. The Political Unconscious.- 3. The Triumvirate.- 4. Cottonopolis, poverty and protest.- 5. The cotton workers and the American Civil War.- 6. Marx and Engels in Manchester.- 7. Poor Reporting: interpreting the triumvirate.- 8. Conclusion.