The Industrial Revolution and British Society

This text is a wide-ranging survey of the principal economic and social aspects of the first Industrial Revolution.

Patrick O'Brien (Edited by), Roland Quinault (Edited by)

9780521437448, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 29 January 1993

308 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.505 kg

'This is an essential … extremely useful handbook for anyone doing work on this period.' Open History

The Industrial Revolution and British Society is an original and wide-ranging textbook survey of the principal economic and social aspects of the Industrial Revolution in Britain in the eighteenth- and early nineteenth-centuries. The distinguished international team of contributors each focus on topics at the very centre of scholarly interest, and draw together the prevailing research in an accessible and stimulating manner: the intention throughout is to introduce a broad student readership to important, but less familiar aspects and consequences of the first Industrial Revolution. A variety of different disciplinary skills are employed in the analysis of empirical and conceptual data, and each chapter opens up its subject with indications for further reading. The Industrial Revolution and British Society offers a topical overview on perspectives of this central historical problem, and will be widely used as a course text by teachers in the field.

1. Modern conceptions of the Industrial Revolution Patrick O'Brien
2. Women in the work force Duncan Bythell
3. Reinterpretations of the Industrial Revolution Gary Hawke
4. Methodism and political stability in early industrial England Alan D. Gilbert
5. Sex and desire in the Industrial Revolution Thomas Laqueur
6. Political preconditions for the Industrial Revolution Patrick O'Brien
7. Crime, law and punishment in the Industrial Revolution Davis Philips
8. The Industrial Revolution and parliamentry reform Roland E. Quinault
9. The margins of the Industrial Revolution Eric Richards
10. Social aspects of the Industrial Revolution John Stevenson
11. Technological and organisational change in industry during the Industrial Revolution G. N. von Tunzelmann
12. Postscript Eric Jones.

Subject Areas: Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900 [HBLL], British & Irish history [HBJD1]