The Industrial Revolution
Author: T. S.. Ashton
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Published: 1960
Total Pages: 168
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Author: T. S.. Ashton
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Published: 1960
Total Pages: 168
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Thomas Southcliffe Ashton
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 1986-03-26
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13: 9780313250415
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Thomas S. Ashton
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Published: 1948
Total Pages: 167
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Hugh Chisholm
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Published: 1910
Total Pages: 1090
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis eleventh edition was developed during the encyclopaedia's transition from a British to an American publication. Some of its articles were written by the best-known scholars of the time and it is considered to be a landmark encyclopaedia for scholarship and literary style.
Author: Hans-Joachim Voth
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780199241941
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDid working hours in England increase as a result of the Industrial Revolution? Marx said so, and so did E. P. Thompson; but where was the evidence to support this belief? Literary sources are difficult to interpret, wage books are few and hardly representative, and clergymen writing about the sloth of their flock did little to validate their complaints. In this important and innovative study Hans-Joachim Voth for the first time provides rigorously analysed statistical data. He calls more than 2,800 witnesses to the bar of history to answer the question: 'what were you doing at the time of the crime?'. Using these court records, he is able to build six datasets for both rural and urban areas over the period 1750 to 1830 to reconstruct patterns of leisure and labour. Dr Voth is able to show that over this period England did indeed begin to work harder - much harder. By the 1830s, both London and the northern counties of England had experienced a considerable increase- about 20 per cent - in annual working hours. What drove the change was not longer hours per day, but the demise of 'St Monday' and a plethora of religious and political festivals.
Author: Thomas Southcliffe Ashton
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Published: 1969
Total Pages: 135
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Joel Mokyr
Publisher: Government Institutes
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780865981546
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn recent years, scholars from a variety of disciplines have addressed many perplexing questions about the Industrial Revolution in all its aspects. Understandably, economics has become the focal point for these efforts as professional economists have sought to resolve some of the controversies surrounding this topic. This collection contains ten of the best articles written by economists on the subject of the Industrial Revolution ... Among the questions discussed are the causes for the pre-eminence of Britain, the roles of the inputs for growth (capital, labor, technical progress), the importance of demand factors, the relation between agricultural progress and the Industrial Revolution, and the standard of living debate. The essays demonstrate that the application of fresh viewpoints to the literature has given us a considerable new body of data at our disposal, making it possible to test commonly held hypotheses. In addition, this new data has enabled economists to apply a more rigorous logic to the thinking about the Industrial Revolution, thus sharpening many issues heretofore blurred by slipshod methodology and internal inconsistencies.-- Back cover.
Author: Pat Hudson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2014-08-29
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 1474225470
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is an introduction to the Industrial Revolution which offers an integrated account of the economic and social aspects of change during the period. Recent revisionist thinking has implied that fundamental change in economic, social and political life at the time of the Industrial Revolution was minimal or non-existent. The author challenges this interpretation, arguing that the process of revision has gone too far; emphasizing continuity at the expense of change and neglecting many historically unique features of the economy and society. Elements given short shrift in many current interpretations are reassigned their central roles.
Author: Lawrence A. Peskin
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2007-11
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780801887505
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"While much has been written about the industrial revolution," writes Lawrence Peskin, "we rarely read about industrial revolutionaries." This absence, he explains, reflects the preoccupation of both classical and Marxist economics with impersonal forces rather than with individuals. In Manufacturing Revolution Peskin deviates from both dominant paradigms by closely examining the words and deeds of individual Americans who made things in their own shops, who met in small groups to promote industrialization, and who, on the local level, strove for economic independence. In speeches, petitions, books, newspaper articles, club meetings, and coffee–house conversations, they fervently discussed the need for large-scale American manufacturing a half-century before the Boston Associates built their first factory. Peskin shows how these economic pioneers launched a discourse that continued for decades, linking industrialization to the cause of independence and guiding the new nation along the path of economic ambition. Based upon extensive research in both manuscript and printed sources from the period between 1760 and 1830, this book will be of interest to historians of the early republic and economic historians as well as to students of technology, business, and industry.
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Published: 1982-12
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ISBN-13: 9781860130786
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