The Age of Manufactures, 1700-1820, Second Edition: Industry, Innovation and Work in Britain

by Maxine Berg (Author), Maxine Berg (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  1994

  $42.05

  This new edition of The Age of Manufactures provides an exciting alternative overview of the eighteenth-century British economy. Recent macro-economic history has discounted many of the achievements of the Industrial Revolution. Maxine Berg argues that at the heart of the Industrial Revolution, we find many new consumer industries employing a women's workforce, and bringing with them a rich diversity of technological and organizational change. Four new chapters explore recent perspectives on:
  * The Industrial Revolution
  * Eighteenth century industries
  * Machines and manual labour
  * The rise of the factory system
  Statistical summaries, and a thorough revision of the whole text have refreshed and enhanced this well-established and important contribution to British ecomonic history.

• Used

  Paperback
  1985

  $3.25