'Revisions and revolutions. Technology and productivity change in manufacture in eighteenth century England' in P Mathias & J A Davis (eds), Nature of Industrialisation. Volume 2. Innovation and technology in Europe. From the eighteenth century

Details:

Author(s) Berg, Maxine
Publication type Chapter
Year published 1991
Pages pp43-64
Publisher Blackwell
Place Published Oxford

Topics:

Name Innovation, diffusion & invention, inc technology & products
Name Production of goods & services - methods & organisation
Name Productivity

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Library:

Name British Library
City London
County Greater London
Country England
Postcode NW1 2DB
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Economic history texts

Notes:

Challenges new indices of economic growth, and their interpretation, which show slower growth in the industrial revolution era, exploring technological change and labour force participation to argue that 'productivity gains have been hidden by excessively narrow definitions of technology and the labour force [size]'. Has sections: 'Revisions of Deane & Cole'; 'Dualism in the industrial revolution'; 'Dual economics'; 'Handicraft and productivity'; 'Handicraft industry and the labour force'