Organic Agriculture: An Agrarian or Industrial Revolution?

The female labour market in English agriculture during the Industrial Revolution: expansion or contraction?

This article reviews some of the recent literature on women's farm work and adds evidence from sources such as Marshall's Review and farm accounts to consider patterns of expansion and contraction in the demand for female labour from the capitalist sector of English agriculture over the period a7oo-185o. The amount of work available to women, the sexual division of labour and female wage rates ...

Three Equations Generating an Industrial Revolution?

In this paper we evaluate quantitatively the relationship between economic and demographic growth. We use simple models of endogenous growth, featuring human capital investment at the individual level in conjunction with either of two models of fertility choice, the B&B dynastic motive, and the B&J lateage-security motive. We find that exogenous improvements in agespecific survival probabilitie...

Data Integration Needs an Industrial Revolution

Organizational factors—lifecycles, staff specialization and retraining, and participants’ incentives—are too rarely considered in data integration research. We discuss how one can repackage the familiar tasks and research problems, to better fit organizations’ needs. The goal is to obtain data integration tools that support an industrial process of data integration.

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...