The Industrial Revolution.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- General Editor's Preface -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Measurement -- Specifying the industrial revolution -- The causes of the industrial revolution -- Part One: Writing and Rewriting History -- 1 Perspectives on the Industrial Revolution -- Early interpretations -- The revolution challenged -- Economic cycles and the industrial revolution -- Economic growth models -- Dependency theories -- The transition debate -- Heroic accounts -- Technology -- Capital formation -- The factory system and its alternatives -- The standard of living -- Class and class conflict -- Current perspectives -- 2 The Economy and the State -- The macroeconomic perspective -- Macro estimates and macro interpretations -- Method and measurement -- Sources -- Identifying the industrial revolution -- Productivity and innovation -- The state -- Central government revenue -- Government expenditure and war -- The impact of the Napoleonic Wars -- Economy, society and the fiscal military state -- Conclusion -- 3 Agriculture and the Industrial Revolution -- Productivity and innovation -- Productivity estimates -- Technical innovations -- Capitalist farming -- Enclosure -- The marketing of agricultural produce -- The dynamic links -- The release of labour -- The supply of food, raw materials and exports -- Incomes, real incomes and the home market -- Agriculture as a consumer of goods and services -- The release of capital -- Conclusion -- Part Two: The Industrial Revolution -- 4 Regions and Industries -- The regional perspective -- National considerations -- Regional diversity -- Proto-industrialisation: the location -- Proto-industrialisation: dynamic influences -- Capital, labour and innovation -- The West Riding of Yorkshire -- Lancashire -- Birmingham and the West Midlands.

Coalfield industrialisation: the case of Northumberland and Durham -- Deindustrialisation: the case of the Weald -- Cumbria: a case of contrasts -- Conclusion -- 5 Demography and Labour -- Population change -- Wrigley and Schofield's analysis -- Problems with the preventive check -- Proto-industrialisation and demography -- Proletarianisation, work opportunities and the family wage economy -- Mortality -- Urbanisation -- Theories of urban growth -- The impact of urbanisation -- Migration -- Population growth and economic growth -- The family and labour supply -- Conclusion -- 6 Consumption and Commerce -- The sources of demand -- Demand and innovation -- Internal demand -- A consumer revolution -- A consumer revolution? -- The integration of supply and demand -- External commerce, colonies and markets -- The pattern of overseas trade -- The impact of overseas trade -- Gentlemanly capitalism and overseas expansion -- The slave trade -- Slavery and the industrial revolution -- Slavery: an assessment -- Conclusion -- 7 Class and Gender -- Class and the industrial revolution -- Crime and the dangerous classes -- Factors in the formation of the working class -- The industrial revolution without class? -- Capitalist class or classes? -- Gentlemanly capitalism and the industrial revolution -- Women and the industrial revolution -- Women and the industrial revolution: an assessment -- Gender ideology -- Class and gender -- Conclusion -- Epilogue -- Index.

This is an introduction to the Industrial Revolution which offers an integrated account of the economic and social aspects of change during the period.

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