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May 1, 1986The Economic History Review284 citations

The Age of Manufactures: Industry, Innovation, and Work in Britain, 1700-1820.

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EHEric HopkinsMBMaxine Berg

Key Points

  • To examine the structural transformation of British manufacturing, labor practices, and technological innovation during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
  • Historical economic analysis synthesizing sector-level transformations across agriculture, textiles, metalworking, and hardware trades in Britain between 1700 and 1820.
  • Examination of workforce composition, resource utilization, trade patterns, and organizational shifts from artisanal manual production to the early factory system.
  • Industrialization proceeded along multiple distinct sectoral paths, driven both by mechanical innovation and the reorganization of traditional manual labor.
  • Women and child labor, along with consumer demand and shifting trade dynamics, served as foundational drivers of British manufacturing expansion across the period.

Abstract

Introduction Part One Manufacture and the Economy 1. Current Perspectives and New Departures 2. Industries 3. Models of Industrial Transition 4. Agriculture, Resources, Environment 5. Industrial Decline 6. Trade, Consumption and Manufacturing 7. Women, Children and Work Part Two - Paths to the Industrial Revolution 8. Machines and Manual Labour 9. The Rise of the Factory System 10. The Textile Industries: Organizing Work 11. Textile Industries: Technologies 12. The Metal and Hardware Trades

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Hopkins et al. (1986) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a1e939f6b4935698da40b3ahttps://doi.org/10.2307/2596161
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