The industrial revolution
By: prepared by Christopher Harvie for the [Age of Revolutions] Course Team.
Contributors: Open University
Series: Arts, a second level course: the age of revolutions; units 5-6
Publisher: Open University Press
Published: 1972
Place of publication: Bletchley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 95
Subjects: Great Britain -- Industries -- History
Notes: Bibl.p.93.
Table of contents: label: Part I
title: Aim; title: To Understand the Preconditions of Industrial Expansion in the Eighteenth Century; label: Objectives; label: Section 1
title: To Understand the Divergences of Opinion Among Reputable Historians; label: Section 2
title: To Understand the Relationship Between Ashton’s and Hobsbawm’s Ideologies; label: Section 3
title: To Test These 'Models' of the Preconditions for Industrialization; label: Part 2
title: Aim; title: To Grasp the Nature of the Technical, Economic and Organizational Innovations; label: Objectives; title: To Explain the Technical and Organizational Innovations in the Major Industries; label: Sections; label: 1
title: Agriculture; label: 2
title: Coal; label: 3
title: Iron (Integrated with Radio Programme 6, 'Wilkinson the Iron King'); label: 4
title: The Steam Engine; label: 5
title: Textiles (Integrated with Television Programme 3, 'The Machine in the English Cotton Industry 1720-1820'); label: 6
title: Chemicals; label: 7
title: Household Goods; label: 8
title: Transport; label: 9
title: Business Organization; label: 10
title: Banking; label: 11
title: Businessmen; label: Part 3
title: Aim; title: To Study the Effect of Industrialization on British Society; label: Sections; label: 1
title: The Landed Classes, and Their Role in Economic Change; label: 2
title: The Capitalists and the Problem of Achieving Structural Change in an Industrial Economy; label: 3
title: The Working Class, Its Well-being and the Growth of Its Independent Consciousness; label: Assignment