Rethinking the Industrial Revolution: Five Centuries of Transition from Agrarian to Industrial Capitalism in EnglandIn Rethinking the Industrial Revolution: Five Centuries of Transition from Agrarian to Industrial Capitalism in England, Michael Andrew Žmolek offers the first in-depth study of the evolution of English manufacturing from the feudal and early modern periods within the context of the development of agrarian capitalism. With an emphasis on the relationship between Parliament and working Britons, this work challenges readers to 'rethink' the common perception of the role of the state in the first industrial revolution as essentially passive. The work chronicles how a long train of struggles led by artisans resisting efforts by employers to transform production along capitalist lines, prompted employers to appeal to the state to suppress this resistance by coercion. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
England Transformed Manufacturing and Agrarian Capitalism 13481783 | 45 |
Such Machines As Cannot Err Capital and Technology in the Making of Industrial England 17001800 | 281 |
Customs Last Stand The Rise and Fall of ArtisanLed Resistance to Capitalism in England 17831848 | 507 |
Conclusion | 793 |
Epilogue | 841 |
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