The age of manufactures 1700 - 1820 : industry, innovation and work in Britain / Maxine Berg

PART I. MANUFACTURE AND THE ECONOMY. 1. Current perspectives and new departures. - Quantitative estimates: a new orthodoxy. - Questions. - New departures. 2. Industries. - National statistics. - The textile industries. - Mining and metals. - Other industries. 3. Models of industrial transition. - Adam Smith and natural progress. - New theories of regional and urban growth. - Marx on primitive accumulation. - "Manufactures" and "modern industry". - Proto-industrialization. - Manufacture and proto-industry: applications?. - Other alternatives. - Social values. 3. Agriculture, resources, environment. - Agriculture's subordination. - Contributions to industry. - Agrarian structures and the rise of industry. - Resources and environment. 5. Industrial decline. - Dispersed industry and reginoal factors. - Reasons for decline. - The old cloth reggions. - Comparative advantage. - Institutional factors. - New rural industries. - Other regions. - Cyclical factors. 6. Trade, consumption and manufacturin. - Foreing markets. - English exports. - Mercantilst policies. - The re-export and entrepôt trades. - Consumption and fashion. - Colonial wares and women's desires. 7. Women, children and work. - Women and macroeconomic indicators. - Why were women employed?. - Female and juevenile technologies and skills. - Machinery and women's work. - Skill definitions. - Explaining women's workforce participation. - Familiy, status and training. - Women's community networks. PART II. PATHS TO THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION. 8. Machines and manual labour. - Habakkuk and factor-saving theories. - Resource saving. - Evolutionary theories. - Institutional factors. - Product innovation. - Resistance to new technology. - The labour process. - Marxist dilemmans. 9. The rise of the factory system. - Definitions. - Origins of capitalist hierarchy. - Scale and industrial organization. - Flexible specialization. - Organization and technology. - Small-scale and large-scale factories. - The logic of manageial enterprise. 10. The textile industries: organizing work. - Industrial origins. - Early work organization. - Impact of social structure. - Road to the factory system. - Factories and alternatives. 11. The textile industries: technologies. - Spinnning. - Weaving. - Finishing techniques. - The impact of textile machinery. - New techniques, skills, division of labour. - Textile technology and labour resistance. 12. The metal and hardware trades. - Metals and manufacture. - Hardware and cutlery. - Birmingham trades. - Invention. - Artisan independence and skill. - Apprenticeship and sexual division of labour. - Conclusion.