Age of Manufactures, 1700-1820 Industry, Innovation, and Work in Britain

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 systemStatistical summaries, and a thorough revision of the whole text have refreshed and enhanced this well-established and important contribution to British ecomonic history.Berg, Maxine is the author of 'Age of Manufactures, 1700-1820 Industry, Innovation, and Work in Britain', published 1994 under ISBN 9780415069359 and ISBN 0415069351.