The Idea Of Capitalism Before The Industrial Revolution

Author : Richard Grassby
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1999-10-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781461644446

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The Idea of Capitalism before the Industrial Revolution by Richard Grassby Pdf

Invented in post-industrial 19th century Europe, the idea of capitalism originally sought to describe and explain the distinctive characteristics of an emerging modern world. Since then, capitalism has served to identify an economic system, a particular social structure, and a set of cultural values and mental attitudes. The subject of continuous debate among scholars for more than a century, capitalism has been accorded so many definitions, it is now virtually meaningless. Depending upon the interpreter, capitalism is synonymous with the market economy, the division of labor, credit creation, economic concentration, social polarization, class formation, the decline of kinship and community, patriarchy, property rights, contracts, acquisitiveness, the work ethic, conspicuous consumption, individualism and entrepreneurship. Noted economic historian Richard Grassby investigates the origins and evolution of the idea of capitalism to illustrate for readers the true nature, merits, and the future of capitalism. Grassby examines its numerous and often conflicting definitions, and he tests alternative models of capitalism against the historical record to establish when, where, how, and why modern economies and societies emerged. Although Grassby argues that capitalism is a concept with diminished explanatory power, he shows the influence of this powerful idea on the formation of the world we live in. This is required reading for classes on World history, modern European history, and economic history.

Author : Peter Kriedte,Hans Medick,Jurgen Schlumbohm
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1982-01-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0521238099

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Industiarlization before Industiarlization by Peter Kriedte,Hans Medick,Jurgen Schlumbohm Pdf

Beginning in the late Middle Ages, and accelerating in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, there developed in many rural regions of Europe a domestic industry, mass-producing craft goods for distant markets. This book presents an analysis of this 'industrialization before industrialization', and considers the question whether it constituted a distinct mode of production, different from the preceding feudal economy and from subsequent industrial capitalism, or was part of a process of continuous evolution characterized by the spread of wage labour and the penetration of capitalism into the process of production. It is a full-scale attempt to take a look at the place of proto-industrialization in the genesis of capitalism, and will interest economic and social historians, as well as anthropologists, sociologists, and others concerned with the development of capitalism.

Author : Thomas Max Safley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351251075

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Labor Before the Industrial Revolution by Thomas Max Safley Pdf

One cannot conceive of capitalism without labor. Yet many of the current debates about economic development leading to industrialization fail to directly engage with labor at all. This collection of essays strives to correct this oversight and to reintroduce labor into the great debates about capitalist development and economic growth before the Industrial Revolution. By attending to the effects of specific regulatory, technological, social and physical environments on producers and production in a set of specific industries, these essays use an “ecological” approach that demonstrates how productivity, knowledge and regime changed between 1400 and 1800. This book will be of interest to researchers in history, especially labor history, and European economic development.

Author : Robert S. Duplessis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1997-09-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521397731

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Transitions to Capitalism in Early Modern Europe by Robert S. Duplessis Pdf

Between the end of the Middle Ages and the Industrial Revolution, the long-established structures and practices of European agriculture and industry were slowly, disparately, but profoundly transformed. Transitions to Capitalism in Early Modern Europe, first published in 1997, narrates and analyzes the diverse patterns of economic change that permanently modified rural and urban production, altered Europe's economy and geography, and gave birth to new social classes. Broad in chronological and geographical scope and explicitly comparative, the book introduces readers to a wealth of information drawn from thoughout Mediterranean, east-central, and western Europe, as well as to the classic interpretations and current debates and revisions. The study incorporates scholarship on topics such as the world economy and women's work, and it discusses at length the impact of the emergent capitalist order on Europe's working people.

Author : John Foster
Publisher : George Weidenfeld & Nicholson
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105002498488

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Class Struggle and the Industrial Revolution by John Foster Pdf

Class Struggle and the Industrial Revolution represents both a continuation of, and a stark contrast to, the impressive tradition of social history which has grown up in Britain in the last two decades. Its use of sophisticated quantitative techniques for the dissection of urban social structures will serve as a model for subsequent research workers. This work examines the impact of industrialization on the social development of the cotton manufacturing town of Oldham from 1790-1860; in particular how the experience of industrial capitalism aided the formation of a coherent organized mass class consciousness capable by 1830 of controlling all the vital organs of local government in the town. This will be a useful study to any student of the industrial revolution.

Author : Michael Andrew Žmolek
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 935 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004251793

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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.

Author : Henry Heller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1783714603

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The Birth of Capitalism by Henry Heller Pdf

Author : Roger Lloyd-Jones,Merv Lewis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134221851

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British Industrial Capitalism Since The Industrial Revolution by Roger Lloyd-Jones,Merv Lewis Pdf

The authors use a long-wave framework to examine the historical evolution of British industrial capitalism since the late-18th century, and present a challenging and distinctive economic history of modern and contemporary Britain. The book is intended for undergraduate courses on the economic history of modern Britain within history, economic and social history, economic history and economic degree schemes, and economic theory courses.

Author : Maxine Berg,Pat Hudson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781509552702

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Slavery, Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution by Maxine Berg,Pat Hudson Pdf

The role of slavery in driving Britain's economic development is often debated, but seldom given a central place. In their remarkable new book, Maxine Berg and Pat Hudson ‘follow the money’ to document in revealing detail the role of slavery in the making of Britain’s industrial revolution. Slavery was not just a source of wealth for a narrow circle of slave owners who built grand country houses and filled them with luxuries. The forces set in motion by the slave and plantation trades seeped into almost every aspect of the economy and society. In textile mills, iron and copper smelting, steam power, and financial institutions, slavery played a crucial part. Things we might think far removed from the taint of slavery, such as eighteenth-century fashions for indigo-patterned cloth, sweet tea, snuff boxes, mahogany furniture, ceramics and silverware, were intimately connected. Even London’s role as a centre for global finance was partly determined by the slave trade as insurance, financial trading and mortgage markets were developed in the City to promote distant and risky investments in enslaved people. The result is a bold and unflinching account of how Britain became a global superpower, and how the legacy of slavery persists. Acknowledging Britain’s role in slavery is not just about toppling statues and renaming streets. We urgently need to come to terms with slavery’s inextricable links with Western capitalism, and the ways in which many of us continue to benefit from slavery to this day.

Author : Maarten Prak
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2005-06-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134604418

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Early Modern Capitalism by Maarten Prak Pdf

This volume takes stock of recent research on economic growth, as well as the development of capital and labour markets, during the centuries that preceded the Industrial Revolution. The book underlines the diversity in the economic experiences of early modern Europeans and suggests how this variety might be the foundation of a new conception of economic and social change.

Author : Francesco Boldizzoni
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780674246720

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Foretelling the End of Capitalism by Francesco Boldizzoni Pdf

Intellectuals since the Industrial Revolution have been obsessed with whether, when, and why capitalism will collapse. This riveting account of two centuries of failed forecasts of doom reveals the key to capitalism’s durability. Prophecies about the end of capitalism are as old as capitalism itself. None have come true. Yet, whether out of hope or fear, we keep looking for harbingers of doom. In Foretelling the End of Capitalism, Francesco Boldizzoni gets to the root of the human need to imagine a different and better world and offers a compelling solution to the puzzle of why capitalism has been able to survive so many shocks and setbacks. Capitalism entered the twenty-first century triumphant, its communist rival consigned to the past. But the Great Recession and worsening inequality have undermined faith in its stability and revived questions about its long-term prospects. Is capitalism on its way out? If so, what might replace it? And if it does endure, how will it cope with future social and environmental crises and the inevitable costs of creative destruction? Boldizzoni shows that these and other questions have stood at the heart of much analysis and speculation from the early socialists and Karl Marx to the Occupy Movement. Capitalism has survived predictions of its demise not, as many think, because of its economic efficiency or any intrinsic virtues of markets but because it is ingrained in the hierarchical and individualistic structure of modern Western societies. Foretelling the End of Capitalism takes us on a fascinating journey through two centuries of unfulfilled prophecies. An intellectual tour de force and a plea for political action, it will change our understanding of the economic system that determines the fabric of our lives.

Author : Sven Beckert,Seth Rockman
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812293098

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Slavery's Capitalism by Sven Beckert,Seth Rockman Pdf

During the nineteenth century, the United States entered the ranks of the world's most advanced and dynamic economies. At the same time, the nation sustained an expansive and brutal system of human bondage. This was no mere coincidence. Slavery's Capitalism argues for slavery's centrality to the emergence of American capitalism in the decades between the Revolution and the Civil War. According to editors Sven Beckert and Seth Rockman, the issue is not whether slavery itself was or was not capitalist but, rather, the impossibility of understanding the nation's spectacular pattern of economic development without situating slavery front and center. American capitalism—renowned for its celebration of market competition, private property, and the self-made man—has its origins in an American slavery predicated on the abhorrent notion that human beings could be legally owned and compelled to work under force of violence. Drawing on the expertise of sixteen scholars who are at the forefront of rewriting the history of American economic development, Slavery's Capitalism identifies slavery as the primary force driving key innovations in entrepreneurship, finance, accounting, management, and political economy that are too often attributed to the so-called free market. Approaching the study of slavery as the originating catalyst for the Industrial Revolution and modern capitalism casts new light on American credit markets, practices of offshore investment, and understandings of human capital. Rather than seeing slavery as outside the institutional structures of capitalism, the essayists recover slavery's importance to the American economic past and prompt enduring questions about the relationship of market freedom to human freedom. Contributors: Edward E. Baptist, Sven Beckert, Daina Ramey Berry, Kathryn Boodry, Alfred L. Brophy, Stephen Chambers, Eric Kimball, John Majewski, Bonnie Martin, Seth Rockman, Daniel B. Rood, Caitlin Rosenthal, Joshua D. Rothman, Calvin Schermerhorn, Andrew Shankman, Craig Steven Wilder.

Author : Darcy Frisina
Publisher : Classroom Complete Press
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780228301806

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Capitalism vs. Communism: The Industrial Revolution Gr. 5-8 by Darcy Frisina Pdf

**This is the chapter slice "The Industrial Revolution Gr. 5-8" from the full lesson plan "Capitalism vs. Communism"** Discover the rise of Capitalism from the Great Depression through the Cold War. Our resource explores the differences between a Capitalistic, Communist and Globalization economy. Step into the Dust Bowl era and experience the hardships of the Great Depression. Explain how the New Deal helped the United States recover during this dismal time. Travel back to the Industrial Revolution and find out why people became more interested in Communism as a result of these changes. Recognize that the Cold War was a war between Capitalism and Communism, and discover how Capitalism changed throughout the world since this conflict. Experience what it's like to shop at the mall in a Communist country, and how this would affect your own lifestyle. Explore the dangers of monopolies in a Capitalistic economy. Find out about the Inca culture and how it is similar to Communism. Get a global view of the world economy by seeing how businesses benefit from world-wide partnerships. Aligned to your State Standards and written to Bloom's Taxonomy, additional writing tasks, crossword, word search, comprehension quiz and answer key are also included.

Author : Maurice Dobb
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136323997

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Papers on Capitalism, Development and Planning by Maurice Dobb Pdf

This volume consists of lectures and articles by Maurice Dobb selected from among those delivered or written by him during the 1950s and 60s. It includes three lectures delivered at the University of Bologna on ‘Some Problems in the History of Capitalism’, two lectures on economic development given at the Delhi School of Economics, articles on the theory of development, and a number of articles on various questions of soviet economic planning contributed to specialist journals. The collection ends with a note in retrospect on Marx’s Das Kapital published in recognition of the centenary of the appearance of Volume One of that work in 1867.

Author : Roger Lloyd-Jones,M. J. Lewis,Myrddin John Lewis
Publisher : Ucl PressLtd
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1857284089

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British Industrial Capitalism Since the Industrial Revolution by Roger Lloyd-Jones,M. J. Lewis,Myrddin John Lewis Pdf

The authors use a long-wave framework to examine the historical evolution of British industrial capitalism since the late-18th century, and present a challenging and distinctive economic history of modern and contemporary Britain. The book is intended for undergraduate courses on the economic history of modern Britain (within history, economic and social history, economic history and economic degree schemes), and economic theory courses.