American and British technology in the nineteenth century : the search for labour-saving inventions
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American and British technology in the nineteenth century : the search for labour-saving inventions
Cambridge University Press, 2008, c1962
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"Re-issued in this digitally printed version 2008" -- T. p. verso
"Paperback re-issue" -- backcover
Includes index
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Description
This essay is a foray into the debatable borderland between history, technology and economics. On the history of technical processes there exist several works, pre-eminent among them the great five-volumed History of Technology. But few historians of technology have shown interest in the models of the economists; and the theorists have concentrated on analysis or on problems of contemporary technology. The present work is an attempt to re-examine some of the more familiar nineteenth-century developments in technology. It originated in lectures given at Columbia University in the autumn of 1958.
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Labour-saving methods in American industry: the problem
- 3. The economic effects of labour-scarcity
- 4. Labour-supplies and technology in the U.S.A.
- 5. Labour-supplies and technology in Britain
- 5. Technology and growth in Britain in the later nineteenth century.
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