Author : Kristine Bruland
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 23,19 MB
Release : 2003-11-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521891554
Kristine Bruland looks at the Norwegian experience to show how a small economy created a technological infrastructure.
Author : Andreas Malm
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 678 pages
File Size : 45,19 MB
Release : 2016-02-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1784781312
How capitalism first promoted fossil fuels with the rise of steam power The more we know about the catastrophic implications of climate change, the more fossil fuels we burn. How did we end up in this mess? In this masterful new history, Andreas Malm claims it all began in Britain with the rise of steam power. But why did manufacturers turn from traditional sources of power, notably water mills, to an engine fired by coal? Contrary to established views, steam offered neither cheaper nor more abundant energy—but rather superior control of subordinate labour. Animated by fossil fuels, capital could concentrate production at the most profitable sites and during the most convenient hours, as it continues to do today. Sweeping from nineteenth-century Manchester to the emissions explosion in China, from the original triumph of coal to the stalled shift to renewables, this study hones in on the burning heart of capital and demonstrates, in unprecedented depth, that turning down the heat will mean a radical overthrow of the current economic order.
Author : J. A. Jowitt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 36,80 MB
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0429828438
First published in 1988. This collection of essays examines aspects of labour and industrial relations history in the textiles sector of Northern England during the mature phase of industrialisation before World War One and the period of retrenchment during the interwar economic recession. There are chapters on wool, worsted, silk, cotton spinning and weaving, and cotton finishing. The volume includes contributions by historians interested in employers’ organisations and management strategies, labour, trade union and women’s history. As such it provides a broader framework in which relationships between capital and labour are analysed. The book also incorporates some of the recent research on particularly neglected areas of social history, most notably on women workers and on the industrial relations policies of employers in textiles.
Author : Geoffrey Timmins
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 13,15 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780719037252
Author : Kenneth Pomeranz
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 50,8 MB
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0691217181
A landmark comparative history of Europe and China that examines why the Industrial Revolution emerged in the West The Great Divergence sheds light on one of the great questions of history: Why did sustained industrial growth begin in Northwest Europe? Historian Kenneth Pomeranz shows that as recently as 1750, life expectancy, consumption, and product and factor markets were comparable in Europe and East Asia. Moreover, key regions in China and Japan were no worse off ecologically than those in Western Europe, with each region facing corresponding shortages of land-intensive products. Pomeranz’s comparative lens reveals the two critical factors resulting in Europe's nineteenth-century divergence—the fortunate location of coal and access to trade with the New World. As East Asia’s economy stagnated, Europe narrowly escaped the same fate largely due to favorable resource stocks from underground and overseas. This Princeton Classics edition includes a preface from the author and makes a powerful historical work available to new readers.
Author : Geoffrey Timmins
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 36,21 MB
Release : 1998-12-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780719045394
Presents a new perspective on the Industrial Revolution providing far more than just an account of industrial change. Looks at the development of the economic structures and includes chapters on financing the revolution, technological change, markets and demand, transport and food. The final section looks at economic change and its impact and includes chapters on demography, the household, families, authority and regulation, and the built environment. Providing a complete summary of the various debates in the literature on this period, making a strong case for re-introducing a regional approach to the history of the age.
Author : Leandro Prados de la Escosura
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 36,26 MB
Release : 2004-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1107320135
This 2004 book explores the question of British exceptionalism in the period from the Glorious Revolution to the Congress of Vienna. Leading historians examine why Great Britain emerged from years of sustained competition with its European rivals in a discernible position of hegemony in the domains of naval power, empire, global commerce, agricultural efficiency, industrial production, fiscal capacity and advanced technology. They deal with Britain's unique path to industrial revolution and distinguish four themes on the interactions between its emergence as a great power and as the first industrial nation. First, they highlight growth and industrial change, the interconnections between agriculture, foreign trade and industrialisation. Second, they examine technological change and, especially, Britain's unusual inventiveness. Third, they study her institutions and their role in facilitating economic growth. Fourth and finally, they explore British military and naval supremacy, showing how this was achieved and how it contributed to Britain's economic supremacy.
Author : Roderick Floud
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 30,34 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521527378
Publisher Description
Author : Arthur McIvor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 48,90 MB
Release : 2002-06-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521890922
This detailed 1996 study contributes to an expanding field of interest: the social history of industrial employers. Using previously untapped primary sources, Organised Capital explores the emergence of employers' organisations in northern England and analyses their policies during the heyday of collective activity. Arthur McIvor evaluates the impact of trade unionism, state intervention, war, economic recession and changing product markets on these organisations, charting their role and patterns of growth. He challenges notions of a monolithic employer group and crude economic determinism, while also rejecting 'revisionist' accounts of weak and ineffective employers. Instead, he reaches a more balanced appraisal of these institutions' role in capital-labour relations and the pursuit of employers' class interests. This book will be of interest both to historians and to students of industrial relations.
Author : Vidhathri Academy
Publisher : Vidhathri Academy
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 28,35 MB
Release : 2023-09-26
Category : Education
ISBN :
The Social science contains twenty two chapters with about 15 to 30 solved multiple choice questions at the end of all the twelve chapters. The distribution of the chapters is as follows. Chapter 1 The Rise of Nationalism in Europe 3 – 13; Chapter 2 Nationalism in India 14 – 22; Chapter 3 The Making of a Global World 23 – 33; Chapter 4 The Age of Industrialization 34 – 44; Chapter 5 Print Culture and the Modern World 45 – 55; Chapter 6 Resources and Development 56 – 67; Chapter 7 Forest and Wildlife 68 – 74; Chapter 8 Water Resources 75 – 82; Chapter 9 Agriculture 83 – 97; Chapter 10 Minerals and Energy Resources 98 – 106; Chapter 11 Manufacturing Industries 107 – 115; Chapter 12 Lifelines of National Economy 116 – 124; Chapter 13 Power Sharing 125 – 131; Chapter 14 Federalism 132 – 139; Chapter 15 Gender, Religion and Caste 140 – 147; Chapter 16 Political Parties 148 – 157; Chapter 17 Outcomes of Democracy 158 – 165; Chapter 18 Development 166 – 171; Chapter 19 Sectors of the Indian Economy 172 – 180; Chapter 20 Money and Credit 181 – 188; Chapter 21 Globalization and the Indian Economy 189 – 195; Chapter 22 Consumer Rights 196 – 202. In addition to the above content, an online test series for the class X is available at our website https://www.vidhathriacademy.in/ and also in the google application (Vidhathri Academy). The materials are carefully appended and Vidhathri materials are a trust of more than four crores of students and teachers.
