ABSTRACT

A new edition of this popular single volume survey of the British economy from industrialisation to the present day. This key text has been updated to cover a further decade of Britain's economic and social fortunes. In particular the chapters on the industrial revolution have been extensively revised and there is a new chapter on environmental history. The Industial Age marshals a wealth of statistical and other evidence, using economic theory to analyse recent British economic change.

part |80 pages

Industrialisation 1750–1830

chapter |9 pages

Agriculture and rural society

chapter |8 pages

Population, migration and labour supply

chapter |9 pages

Towns, transport and internal trade

chapter |7 pages

Foreign trade

chapter |6 pages

Money, banking and finance

chapter |13 pages

Manufacturing and mining

chapter |7 pages

Government, war and the economy

chapter |6 pages

The aggregate economy

chapter |13 pages

Industrial Revolution?

part |70 pages

The Industrial Economy 1830–1914

chapter |11 pages

Into the railway age

chapter |11 pages

Population, migration and labour supply

chapter |6 pages

The service economy

chapter |6 pages

Agriculture and rural society

chapter |7 pages

Foreign trade and Empire

chapter |7 pages

Banking and finance

chapter |9 pages

The end of economic supremacy

part |62 pages

Industrialisation and Society 1750–1914

chapter |11 pages

Incomes and consumption

chapter |7 pages

Industrialisation and the family

chapter |11 pages

Work and leisure

chapter |8 pages

Ranks and classes

chapter |8 pages

Employers and unions

chapter |5 pages

Environment, economy and society

part |140 pages

Prosperity and Problems: the Economy 1914–95

part |45 pages

Economy and Society 1914–95

chapter |11 pages

Prosperity and poverty

chapter |13 pages

Work and leisure

chapter |5 pages

A middle-class society?