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• The Postulates of English Political Economy, by Walter Bagehot (HTML at econlib.org)
• Lectures on the Industrial Revolution in England, by Arnold Toynbee (text at McMaster)

• A Worker Looks at History: Being Outlines of Industrial History Specially Written for Labour College Plebs classes (London: Plebs League, 1919), by Mark Starr (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Labour Defended Against the Claims of Capital, by Thomas Hodgskin (text at McMaster)

• The World, Its Debts and the Rich Men: A Speech (1922), by H. G. Wells (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Monopoly and Competition: A Study in English Industrial Organization, by Hermann Levy (PDF at McMaster)

• Historical Account of the Navigable Rivers, Canals, and Railways, of Great Britain (London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green; et al., 1831), by Joseph Priestley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Life of George Stephenson and of His Son Robert Stephenson; Comprising Also a History of the Invention and Introduction of the Railway Locomotive (New York: Harper and Brothers, ca. 1868; with added illustrations), by Samuel Smiles (illustrated HTML with commentary in the UK)

• Lives of the Engineers: The Locomotive; George and Robert Stephenson (new and revised edition; London: J. Murray, 1879), by Samuel Smiles (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The History of the Railway Connecting London and Birmingham: Containing its Progress from the Commencement; To Which Are Added a Popular Description of the Locomotive Engine, and a Sketch of the Geological Features of the Line (London: Simkin, Marshall and Co.; et al., ca. 1838), by Peter Lecount (multiple formats at Google)

• The History of the Railway Connecting London and Birmingham: Containing its Progress from the Commencement; To Which Are Added a Popular Description of the Locomotive Engine, and a Sketch of the Geological Features of the Line (London: Simkin, Marshall and Co.; et al., ca. 1838), by Peter Lecount (multiple formats at Google)

• Mugby Junction (Dickens "main line" story only; from the 1894 Chapman and Hall "Christmas Stories" edition), by Charles Dickens (Gutenberg text)
• Mugby Junction (London: Chapman and Hall, 1898), by Charles Dickens, Andrew Halliday, Charles Allston Collins, Hesba Stretton, and Amelia B. Edwards, illust. by Arthur Jule Goodman (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Handling London's Underground Traffic (London: London's Underground, 1928), by John Pattinson Thomas (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Handling London's Underground Traffic (London: London's Underground, 1928), by John Pattinson Thomas (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Widening Gate: Bristol and the Atlantic Economy, 1450-1700 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by David Harris Sacks (HTML at UC Press)

• The History of Co-Operation (revised and completed; London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1908), by George Jacob Holyoake
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • illustrated HTML in the UK
• History of the Stalybridge Good Intent Co-operative Socirty Limited, 1859-1909 (Manchester, UK: Co-operative Printing Society, 1909), by J. H. Hinchliffe (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Self-Help by the People: The History of the Rochdale Pioneers (tenth edition; London: Allen and Unwin, 1922), by George Jacob Holyoake (HTML in the UK)

• Proposals for Raising a Colledge of Industry of All Useful Trades and Husbandry, With Profit for the Rich, a Plentiful Living for the Poor, and a Good Education for Youth (retyped from a 1696 edition), by John Bellers (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Third Estate (1999), by David Rodgers (PDF in the UK)

• Digital Opportunity: A Review of Intellectual Property and Growth (with related documents; 2011), by Ian Hargreaves (PDF with commentary in the UK)
• The Careless State: Wealth and Welfare in Britain Today (London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, c2010), by Paul Graham Taylor (HTML at bloomsburyacademic.com; registration optional)

• Imagining the Future City: London 2062 (London: Ubiquity Press, c2013), ed. by Sarah Bell and James Paskins (PDF at Ubiquity Press)

• The Maintenance of Free Trade, by Gerard Malynes (text at McMaster)
• The Circle of Commerce, or the Ballance of Trade, in Defence of Free Traded (London: Printed by John Dawson, 1623), by Edward Misselden (PDF at McMaster)

• An Essay on Money & Bullion, by T. Joplin (text at McMaster)
• An Essay on Money and Bullion (London: Printed for B. Lintot, 1718), by J. Jocelyn (PDF at McMaster)
• A Letter on the Price of the Funds, As Connected with the Bank Restriction Act (London: J.M. Richardson, 1818) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Money Answers All Things, by Jacob Vanderlint (text at McMaster)

• Medieval Merchants and Money: Essays in Honour of James L. Bolton (London: Institute of Historical Research, c2016), ed. by Martin Allen and Matthew P. Davies (PDF with commentary at Humanities Digital Library)

• The High Price of Bullion, by David Ricardo (text at McMaster)
• A Letter to James William Gilbart, General Manager of the London and Westminister Bank, on the Regulation of the Currency by the Foreign Exchanges, and on the Appointment of the Bank of England to be the Sole Bank of Issue Throughout Great Britain (London: P. Richardson, 1840), by Robert Bell
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The High Price of Bullion, by David Ricardo (text at McMaster)

• Some Considerations of the Consequences of the Lowering of Interest and the Raising the Value of Money, by John Locke (text at McMaster)

• Higher Production by a Bonus on National Output: A Proposal For a Minimum Income for All, Varying With National Productivity (London: G. Allen and Unwin, c1920), by Dennis Milner
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Some Considerations of the Consequences of the Lowering of Interest and the Raising the Value of Money, by John Locke (text at McMaster)

• Three Lectures on the Rate of Wages, by Nassau William Senior (HTML at McMaster)

• Six Centuries of Work and Wages: The History of English Labour, by James E. Thorold Rogers (PDF at McMaster)

• The Case of Labourers in Husbandry Stated and Considered, in Three Parts (London: G. G. and J. Robinson, 1795), by David Davies (page images at HathiTrust)

• The New Freewoman (complete run, 1913), ed. by Dora Marsden (full serial archives)

• Journal of the Society of Chemical Industry (partial serial archives)

• Pharmaceutical Parallel Trade in the UK (c2005), by Panos Kanavos and Paul Holmes, ed. by Benedict Irvine, contrib. by David Loudon, Sue Mitchell, David Taylor, and Jim Thomson (PDF at Civitas)

• Kahn-Freund's Labour and the Law (third edition; revised from Hamlyn lecture #24; London: Stevens and Sons, 1983), by Otto Kahn-Freund, P. L. Davies, and M. R. Freedland (PDF in the UK)
• Rights at Work: Global, European and British Perspectives (Hamlyn Lectures, #56; London: Sweet and Maxwell, 2005), by B. A. Hepple (PDF in the UK)
• Labour in War Time (London: G. Bell and Sons, 1915), by G. D. H. Cole (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Communist Industrial Policy: New Tasks for New Times (ca. 1922), by Communist Party of Great Britain (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Essentials of Health and Safety at Work (fourth edition, 2006), by Great Britain Health and Safety Executive (PDF with commentary in the UK)

• Guide to the Unprotected in Every-Day Matters Relating to Property and Income (2nd edition, 1864), by A Banker's Daughter (HTML at Indiana)

• The Careless State: Wealth and Welfare in Britain Today (London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, c2010), by Paul Graham Taylor (HTML at bloomsburyacademic.com; registration optional)

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