Ten Per Cent and No Surrender: The Preston Strike, 1853-1854This is a study of industrial unrest in the cotton industry at a time when the economy was on the threshold of mid Victorian prosperity, and when Chartism was still much more than a memory. The town of Preston was the crucial battlefield, and here the masters and men fought out a bitter trial of strength. The strike of 1853 54 closed the Preston cotton industry for seven months, and disrupted production in many other towns in Lancashire. Against the