Age of Manufactures 1700-1820

<p>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.</p>