Coal and the Industrial Revolution, 1700-1869

Farm wages and living standards in the Industrial Revolution: England, 1670-1869.

Using manuscript and secondary sources, this paper calculates a consistent series of day wages for male farm workers in England from 1670 to 1850. The new series differs considerably for the years 1790-1820 from the still widely used Bowley series. Wages are also estimated for four regions by quinquennia. The new series suggests that real agricultural wages showed little long term movement in t...

Patenting in England, Scotland and Ireland during the Industrial Revolution, 1700-1852

There are two competing accounts for explaining Britain's technological transformation during the Industrial Revolution. One sees it as the inevitable outcome of a largely exogenous increase in the supply of new ideas and ways of thinking. The other sees it as a demand side response to economic incentives – that in Britain, it paid to invent the technology of the Industrial Revolution. However,...

The New Industrial Revolution

The New Industrial Revolution

This article outlines a new framework for understanding the current period of global restructuring, focusing on the relationship between technological change and organizational change. After reviewing the major approaches in the debate over future pathways to industrialization, a new perspective for understanding the ‘new industrial revolution’ is presented. At the core of this revolution is th...

The British Industrial Revolution