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Industrial revolution.

Here are entered works on the complex of radical socioeconomic changes that are brought about when extensive mechanization of production systems results in an abrupt shift from home-based hand manufacturing to large-scale factory production. Works on the gradual development of industry and the organization of production as industries are entered under Industrialization.

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• Economic history
• Social history

• Industrial revolution -- Europe
• Industrial revolution -- Fiction
• Industrial revolution -- Germany
• Industrial revolution -- Great Britain

• Revolution, Industrial

• Imperial Germany and the Industrial Revolution, by Thorstein Veblen (PDF at McMaster)

• Lectures on the Industrial Revolution in England, by Arnold Toynbee (text at McMaster)

• Poor White, by Sherwood Anderson (Gutenberg text)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• A History of Wealth and Poverty: Why a Few Nations are Rich and Many Poor (electronic edition; originally published 1994), by John P. Powelson (HTML at quaker.org)
• Colonialism, Institutional Change, and Shifts in Global Labour Relations (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, c2018), ed. by Karin Hofmeester and Pim De Zwart (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Essays on the Progress of Nations, in Productive Industry, Civilization, Population, and Wealth, by Ezra C. Seaman (page images at MOA)
• L'Évolution Économique du Dixneuvième Siècle: Théorie du Progrès (in French; Paris: C. Reinwald, 1880), by G. de Molinari (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Servile State (London and Edinburgh : T.N. Foulis, 1912), by Hilaire Belloc
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Business Cycles: A Theoretical, Historical, and Statistical Analysis of the Capitalist Process (first edition, 2 volumes; New York and London: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1939), by Joseph A. Schumpeter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Business Recovery Following Depression (Cleveland: The Cleveland Trust Co., 1922), by Leonard Porter Ayres (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Evolution of Revolution (London: Hyndman Literary Trust, ca. 1921), by H. M. Hyndman (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Struggle for Bread: A Reply to "The Great Illusion" and Enquiry Into Economic Tendencies (London and New York: John Lane; Toronto: Bell and Cockburn, 1913), by Victor Wallace Germains (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Theorie der Wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung (in German; Leipzig: Duncker und Humblot, 1912), by Joseph A. Schumpeter (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The World at the Cross Roads (Boston: Small, Mayhard and Co., c1921), by Boris Brasol
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Money and Banking in Medieval and Renaissance Venice: Coins and Moneys of Account (this volume originally published 1985 (second volume published under a different title); open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Frederic Chapin Lane and Reinhold C. Mueller (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Fields, Factories, and Workshops: or, Industry Combined with Agriculture and Brain Work with Manual Work (second edition, 1912), by Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin (HTML at Pitzer)
• The Economics of War and Conquest: An Examination of Mr. Norman Angell's Economic Doctrines (London: P. S. King and Son, 1915), by John Harry Jones (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Jews and Modern Capitalism, by Werner Sombart, trans. by M. Epstein (PDF at McMaster)

• World Agriculture and the Depression (Michigan Business Studies v5 #5; 1933), by Vladimir P. Timoshenko (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Fruits of Victory: A Sequel to "The Great Illusion" (London et al.: W. Collins Sons and Co., c1921), by Norman Angell (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Fruits of Victory: A Sequel to "The Great Illusion" (New York: The Century Co., 1921), by Norman Angell (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A New Deal (New York: Macmillan, 1932), by Stuart Chase (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays in Persuasion (1931), by John Maynard Keynes (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919), by John Maynard Keynes (text at McMaster)
• The Economic Consequences of the Peace (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920), by John Maynard Keynes (Gutenberg text)
• Social Decay and Regeneration (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1921), by R. Austin Freeman, contrib. by Havelock Ellis
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Mankind United: A Challenge to "Mad Ambition" and "The Money Changers", Accompanied by an Invitation to the World's "Sane" Men and Womeb (third edition, ca.1937), by Arthur L. Bell (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• Peaceful Change, the Alternative to War: A Survey Prepared for the National Peace Conference Campaign for World Economic Cooperation (Headline Books #12; New York: Foreign Policy Association, c1937), by William T. Stone and Clark M. Eichelberger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Theses of the Communist League of Struggle (1935), by Communist League of Struggle (HTML at weisbord.org)

• The Diseconomics of Growth (1972), by H. V. Hodson (HTML at Athelstane)

• World Report (full serial archives)

• Anatomy of the Economic Crisis (1982), by Sam Marcy (HTML at workers.org)
• From Abundance to Scarcity: Implications for the American Tradition (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1978), by Kenneth E. Boulding, Michael G. Kammen, and Seymour Martin Lipset (PDF at Ohio State)

• Economic Puppetmasters: Lessons from the Halls of Power (Washington: AEI Press, 1999), by Lawrence Lindsey (PDF with commentary at AEI)
• The Global Emerging Market in Transition: Articles, Forecasts, and Studies, 1973-2003 (New York: Fordham University Press, c2004), by V. L. Kvint (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)
• The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many, by Noam Chomsky and David Barsamian (HTML at zcomm.org)
• Secrets, Lies and Democracy, by Noam Chomsky and David Barsamian (HTML at zcomm.org)

• Globalization and Growth: Implications for a Post-Crisis World (Washington: Commission on Growth and Development; World Bank, c2010), ed. by Michael Spence and Danny M. Leipziger (PDF with commentary at worldbank.org)

• EH.Net Encyclopedia of Economic and Business History, ed. by Robert Whaples (HTML at eh.net)

• Resources for the Study of Economic History: A Preliminary Guide to Pre-Twentieth Century Printed Material in Collections Located in Certain American and British Libraries (Kress Library publication #16; Boston: Baker Library, Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration, 1961), by Dorothea D. Reeves, contrib. by Arthur Harrison Cole and Donald Thomas Clark (page images at HathiTrust)

• Revolutionary Perspectives (1995-) (partial serial archives)
• The Economist (partial serial archives)
• Harvard Business Review (partial serial archives)
• Annals of Collective Economy (partial serial archives)
• Kieler Vorträge (partial serial archives)
• Explorations in Entrepreneurial History (partial serial archives)

• Automation: A Report to the UAW-CIO Economic and Collective Bargaining Conference Held in Detroit, Michigan, the 12th and 13th of November 1954 (Detroit: UAW-CIO Education Dept., 1955), by International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America, contrib. by Walter Reuther (page images at HathiTrust)

• What Matters Now (2009), ed. by Seth Godin (PDF at seths.blog)
• Hacking Life: Systematized Living and Its Discontents (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2019), by Joseph M. Reagle (illustrated HTML with commentary at MIT Press)
• Happiness, Economics and Public Policy (London: Institute of Economic Affairs, 2007), by Helen Johns and Paul Ormerod, contrib. by Samuel Brittan and Melanie Powell (PDF with commentary at IEA)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.