The industrial revolution in world history
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction: Defining the Industrial Revolution -- Technology and Work Organization -- Issues in Interpretation -- The Range of the Industrial Revolution -- Chronology and Geography -- PART ONE | Th...
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Boulder : Routledge,
2018
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| Ausgabe: | 4th ed |
| Umfang: | 1 Online-Ressource (329 pages) |
| Zusammenfassung: | Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction: Defining the Industrial Revolution -- Technology and Work Organization -- Issues in Interpretation -- The Range of the Industrial Revolution -- Chronology and Geography -- PART ONE | The First Phase, 1760-1880 Western Primacy, Global Contexts, and Global Results -- 1 Britain's Revolution New Processes and Economic Transformation -- Britain Becomes the Workshop of the World -- Industrialization Exacts a Price -- Change Generates Change -- 2 New Causes Why Did the Industrial Revolution Happen, and Why Did It Happen in Eighteenth-Century Britain? -- Three Approaches: Minimal, Western, and Global -- Trigger: Why the Eighteenth Century? -- Britain as a Special Case -- 3 The Industrial Revolution in Western Society -- France: An Eclectic Course -- Germany: Trend to Big Business -- The United States: Dynamism of a New Nation -- The Industrial West by the 1880s -- 4 The Social Impact of the Industrial Revolution -- Life on the Job -- Forging the Industrial Family -- Social Divisions and Protest -- A New Political and Cultural Context -- 5 The Industrial Revolution Outside the West -- Pilot Projects: Russia -- Pilot Projects: Asia, Latin America, and Africa -- India and the Middle East -- Latin America and Africa -- China -- Restructuring the International Economy -- The Two Faces of International Impact -- PART TWO | The Second Phase, 1880-1950 The New International Cast -- 6 The Industrial Revolution Changes Stripes, 1880-1950 -- Second-Phase Trends -- Why Japan and Russia? -- 7 The Industrial Revolution in Russia -- Early Industrialization: Before the Revolution -- Social Impacts: Industrialization and Revolution -- The Industrial Revolution Under Communism -- 8 The Industrial Revolution in Japan -- The Context for Industrialization The Early Stages -- Social Impacts -- The Industrial Economy Matures: 1920s-1950s -- 9 New Developments in Western Societies: A Second Revolution? Redefinitions of the Industrial Economy -- Machines and the Drive for Organizational Change -- The Service Sector -- Leisure and the Consumer Economy -- Class Warfare -- Redefining the Scope of Industrialization -- The West as New Model -- 10 The Industrial Revolution in International Context -- The Expansion of Commercial Exploitation -- Environmental Change -- Factory Expansion -- Industrial Sectors: Change amid Tradition -- Economies of the British Dominions -- At the Brink of Global Change -- PART THREE | The Third Phase, 1950s-2000s The Industrialization of the World -- 11 The Industrial Revolution in the Past Half Century -- New Members of the Industrial Club: The 1960s -- The New Wave: The 1980s and 1990s and Beyond -- The Postindustrial Concept -- Globalization -- Deepening Diversity -- 12 New Industrial Revolutions -- Israel: Development in the Desert -- The Pacific Rim -- Industrial Growth in the Pacific Rim -- Expanding the Rim? -- Brazil, Mexico, and Turkey: The Next Wave -- China and India -- Waves of Change -- 13 The Less Industrial World Evolution and Exploitation -- The Long Reach of the Industrial Powers -- Resource Producers: Some New Bargaining Power -- Patterns of Dependency -- Variety and Inequality -- 14 Postindustrial Societies and Global Balance -- Growth Rates -- Structural Changes: The Postindustrial Thesis -- The New Industrial Balance -- 15 Global Industry and the Environment -- The Pace Quickens -- Attempts at Addressing a Large-Scale Problem -- 16 Globalization and Global Industrial Societies 1880-1950 -- The Multinationals -- Labor Migration -- Regionalism and International Forces -- An International Approach to Policy -- Global Societies -- Inequalities -- 17 Conclusions Precedent as a Guide to Prediction -- History and Changing Contexts -- The Balance Sheet -- The Ongoing Experience -- Acknowledgments -- Suggestions for Further Reading -- Index |
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| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (329 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780429963025 0429963025 9780813347295 0813347297 |