The Age of Manufactures, 17001820 Industry, Innovation and Work in Britain

This new edition of <EM>The Age of Manufactures</EM> 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:<BR> * The Industrial Revolution<BR> * Eighteenth century industries<BR> * Machines and manual labour <BR> * The rise of the factory system <BR> Statistical summaries, and a thorough revision of the whole text have refreshed and enhanced this well-established and important contribution to British ecomonic history.