Gainful pursuits : the making of industrial Europe 1600-1914
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Gainful pursuits : the making of industrial Europe 1600-1914
Edward Arnold, 1988
- : pbk
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Includes bibliography and index
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Description
This book attempts a broad, thematic and unique interpretation of Europe's industrial development from the 17th to the 20th century reflecting the results of the most recent research in the field. It regards Europe as a single entity and places her experiences in a broad, global context by showing how Europe's overseas interests and activities encouraged industrial expansion in Europe but discouraged the same elsewhere. No break is made for the Industrial Revolution. It therefore provides an interpretation of European industrialization which is based on continuous rather than revolutionary change.
Table of Contents
- Introduction: Industrial Europe in 1600. Part 1 The structural context: population, agriculture and urbanization
- Europe and the integration of the world economy. Part II Internal dynamics: organization of production and business
- technology and knowledge
- labour, skill and gender division of labour. Part III Industrial studies: the textile industries
- consumer durables
- cars, bicycles, clocks and watches
- the shipbuilding industry
- iron, steel and chemicals
- power industries. Part 4 Conclusions: industrialization and the European economy
- industrial Europe in 1914.
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