The Age of Manufactures, 1700-1820: Industry, Innovation and Work in Britain [Paperback]

Dr Maxine Berg (Author), Maxine Berg (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 26, 1994 | ISBN-10: 0415069351 | ISBN-13: 978-0415069359 | Edition: 2

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.

Editorial Reviews

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Maxine Berg is...one of the finest and most valuable economic historians in the world. At a time when the field has become increasingly mathematical and impersonal, devoted to aggregates and averages and indifferent to human beings, Maxine is one of the few who can read the numbers while paying attention to the people behind them..
–David S. Landes, Harvard University

Economic and social historians alike will welcome a book which provides an up-to-date survey of workshop manufacture in the period 1700-1820 ... the book is based on wide reading and continually provokes thought on the basic issues..
–Economic History Review

About the Author

Maxine Berg is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Warwick. She is the editor of Markets and Manufacture in Early Industrial Europe (1991) and Political Economy in the Twentieth Century (1990). --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: Routledge; 2 edition (June 26, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0415069351
• ISBN-13: 978-0415069359
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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5.0 out of 5 stars Deep ideas from rare material, August 28, 2006

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This review is from: The Age of Manufactures, 1700-1820: Industry, Innovation and Work in Britain (Paperback)

I found this book to be a marvelous presentation of the antecedents of the English Industrial Revolution. It is lucid, apolitical in language, deeply researched, and tightly organized. It draws material from important but uncommon sources, like eighteenth century industrial commentators before Adam Smith. Best of all, the deep texture of its tapestry of ideas was a pleasure to receive into one's own mind.