Making an Industrial Revolution

<b>A new look at Britain's industrial revolution showing how communities of shared skill knowledge and experience drove industrial innovation.</b><br><br><i></i><br><i>Making an Industrial Revolution </i>presents a fresh perspective on British industrialization. Advances in technology commerce and science played their part but - as this book argues - above all it was communities of shared skill knowledge and experience which drove industrial innovation in the eighteenth century.<br><br>Connections and relationships in key sectors - iron textiles and engineering - produced transformative forces that revolutionized industrial life in Britain. Including new insights into Scotland's unique contribution the book explores industrial change across the country highlighting the significance of inter-regional and overseas migration and connection. It considers how social status enabled or limited individuals. It questions how exactly eighteenth-century science linked with emerging industrial technologies; and the importance of science relative to skills and experience in shaping innovation.