The Industrial Revolution
By: Jeff Horn.
Series: Milestones in business history
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780313338533
Subjects: Industrial revolution -- Great Britain -- History; Industrialization -- Great Britain -- History; Industrial revolution -- Europe; Great Britain -- Economic conditions -- History; Europe -- Economic conditions -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Growth and the standard of living in the industrial revolution; title: The building blocks of a new economy; title: Making an industrial revolution I : technology change; title: Making an industrial revolution II : the elaboration of the factory system; title: Why was Britain first?; title: Leads and lags : competing with a dominant economic power; title: Industrialization and the new world order; title: Demand, supply, and the fickle whims of fashion.