This comprehensive and innovative book on the Industrial Revolution uses carefully chosen case studies, illustrated with extracts from contemporary documents, to offer new perspectives on the process and impact of industrialization. The authors look at the development of economic structures, the financing of the Industrial Revolution, technological advances, markets and demand, and agricultural progress. The book also deals with changes in demography, the household, families, and the built environment.

LIST OF FIGURES LIST OF TABLES ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS INTRODUCTION Part I - Conceptualising the Industrial Revolution ONE Perceptions of the Industrial Revolution TWO The regionality of English economic development Part II - Development of the economic infrastructure THREE Technological change and work organisation FOUR Financing the Industrial Revolution FIVE Sellers and buyers: demand and the Industrial Revolution SIX Feeding the Industrial Revolution Part III - The Industrial Revolution and aspects of everyday life SEVEN The demography of the Industrial Revolution EIGHT Families, households and individuals NINE The changing economics of the household TEN The built environment during the Industrial Revolution Conclusion Bibliography Index