Author : Michael Andrew Žmolek
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 935 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004251793
Rethinking the Industrial Revolution by Michael Andrew Žmolek Pdf
In Rethinking the Industrial Revolution: Five Centuries of Transition from Agrarian to Industrial Capitalism in England, Michael Andrew Žmolek offers the first in-depth study of the evolution of English manufacturing from the feudal and early modern periods within the context of the development of agrarian capitalism. With an emphasis on the relationship between Parliament and working Britons, this work challenges readers to 'rethink' the common perception of the role of the state in the first industrial revolution as essentially passive. The work chronicles how a long train of struggles led by artisans resisting efforts by employers to transform production along capitalist lines, prompted employers to appeal to the state to suppress this resistance by coercion.