Title: The age of manufactures : industry, innovation, and work in Britain, 1700-1820 /
Authors: Berg, Maxine, 1950-
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Year: 1986
Subjects: Manufactures History.; Manufacturing industries Great Britain History
Contents: Part one : manufacture and the economy. Industries -- Political economy and the growth of manufacture -- Models of manufacture : primitive accumulation or proto-industrialization? -- Agricultural origins of industry -- Industrial decline -- Domestic manufacture and women's work -- Custom and community in domestic manufacture and the trades -- Part two : paths to the industrial revolution. The economic history of technological diffusion -- The textile industries : organizing work -- The textile industries : technologies -- The metal and hardware trades -- The Birmingham toy trades.