Closely linked essays examine distinctive national patterns of industrialization. This collection of essays offers new perspectives on the Industrial Revolution

The confluence of developments in technology, labor and management practice, and market expansion in the period from 1760 to 1850 so drastically altered the con

Through this book's roughly 50 reference entries, readers will gain a better appreciation of what life during the Industrial Revolution was like and see how the

One cannot conceive of capitalism without labor. Yet many of the current debates about economic development leading to industrialization fail to directly engage

The industrial revolution was and is a huge development and one of the fundamental changes in human experience in the modern world. In Debating the Industrial R