as european and american countries became industrialized, general sociology was gradually replaced with industrial sociology because the main issues were issues related to the industrial society. in the latter half of the 19th century and the early 20th century there was no clear idea about industrial sociology and its duties. after the second world war, a more exact definition of the field eme...

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...

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.

Industries such as manufacturing, mining, and transportation have been experiencing mechanization and automation for well over 100 years. Agriculture, in contrast, has lagged behind and only in the last 30 years have these processes been adopted. Long considered a way of life rather than an industry, farming is now becoming as highly industrialized as the traditionally organized businesses. Pes...

Were ordinary factory workers unskilled and was technology “de-skilling” during the Industrial Revolution? I measure foregone output to estimate the human capital investments in mule spinners and power loom tenders in ante-bellum Lowell. These investments rivaled those of craft apprentices. Although factory workers were unskilled in a sense, the implementation of this technology depended on the...

this research studies how the industry in iran emerged under the influence of industrial revolution and it tries to determine, by exploring the history and process of new industries’ formation within 19th and 20th centuries, the valuable role of these structures, particularly railway as an integral part of the historical memory of this land. as part of heritage, railway and its values underlie ...

Introduction:Romantic Studies and the "Shorter Industrial Revolution" Jeremy Davies (bio) The essays published here make case that romantic literary studies has much to learn from recent scholarship in economic history. historiography of late eighteenth early ninteenth centuries offers new ways understand connections between Romantic cultural formations on one hand, other, fundamental changes B...