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Industrialization

Here are entered works on the gradual development of industry and the organization of production as industries. 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 are entered under Industrial revolution.

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• Economic development
• Economic policy

• Developing countries
• Developed countries
• Deindustrialization

• Industrialization -- China
• Industrialization -- Congresses
• Industrialization -- Europe
• Industrialization -- History
• Industrialization -- Poland
• Industrialization -- Soviet Union
• Space industrialization

• Industrial development
• Industrialisation

• Point Four: Cooperative Program for Aid in the Development of Economically Underdeveloped Areas (January 1950 revision; Washington: GPO, 1950), by United States Department of State (page images at HathiTrust)

• The China Boom and its Discontents (c2005), ed. by Ross Garnaut and Ligang Song (PDF with commentary at ANU E Press)
• China's New Place in a World in Crisis: Economic, Geopolitical and Environmental Dimensions (c2009), ed. by Ross Garnaut, Ligang Song, and Wing Thye Woo (PDF with commentary at ANU E Press)

• Space Resources and Space Settlements (Washington: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1979), ed. by John Billingham, William Gilbreath, and Brian O'Leary, contrib. by Gerard K. O'Neill (illustrated HTML with commentary at nss.org)

• The Industrial Development of Poland, by Rosa Luxemburg, trans. by Tessa DeCarlo, contrib. by Lyndon H. LaRouche (PDF at wlym.com)

• The Economics of Forced Labor: The Soviet Gulag, ed. by Paul R. Gregory and V. V. Lazarev (PDF files at Hoover Institution)

• Confronting Space Debris: Strategies and Warnings from Comparable Examples Including Deepwater Horizon (c2010), by Dave Baiocchi and William Welser (PDF with commentary at rand.org)

• Moon Miner's Manifesto (partial serial archives)

• The Lower Tiers of the Space Transportation Industrial Base (OTA-BP-ISS-161; Washington: GPO, 1995), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files with commentary at Princeton

• Commercial Lunar Propellant Architecture: A Collaborative Study of Lunar Propellant Production (ca .2018), ed. by David A. Kornuta (PDF at USRA Houston Repository)

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

• The United States and New Crossroads in World Economy (reprinted from the Dept. of State Bulletin; Dept. of State publication 7143 (Economic cooperation series #60); 1961), by Edwin M. Martin (multiple formats at Google)
• Capitalism and American Leadership (New York: Philosophical Library, c1962), by Oliver C. Cox (page images at HathiTrust)

• Free and Fair: Making the Progressive Case for Removing Trade Barriers (London: Foreign Policy Centre, 2004), ed. by Phoebe Griffith and Jack Thurston (PDF with commentary at fpc.org.uk)

• The Trade Policies of Developing Countries: Recent Reforms and New Challenges (Washington: AEI Press, 2000), by Sarath Rajapatirana (PDF at AEI)

• Greenprint: A New Approach to Cooperation on Climate Change (Washington: Center for Global Development, c2013), by Aaditya Mattoo and Arvind Subramanian (PDF at cgdev.org)
• The Poorest and Hungry: Assessments, Analyses, And Actions (an IFPRI 2020 book; Washington: International Food Policy Research Institute, c2009), ed. by Joachim Von Braun, Ruth Vargas Hill, and Rajul Pandya-Lorch (at ifpri.org)
• HIPC Debt Relief: Myths and Reality (2004), ed. by Jan Joost Teunissen and Age Akkerman (PDF files with commentary at fondad.org)
• 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)
• Development Cooperation in a Fractured Global Order: An Arduous Transition, by Francisco R. Sagasti and Gonzalo Alcade (PDF and HTML with commentary at idrc.ca)

• Diversity in Development: Reconsidering the Washington Consensus (2004), ed. by Jan Joost Teunissen and Age Akkerman (PDF files with commentary at fondad.org)
• Free and Fair: Making the Progressive Case for Removing Trade Barriers (London: Foreign Policy Centre, 2004), ed. by Phoebe Griffith and Jack Thurston (PDF with commentary at fpc.org.uk)
• The Growth Report: Strategies for Sustained Growth and Inclusive Development (in multiple languages; c2008), by Commission on Growth and Development (PDF with commentary at worldbank.org)
• Leadership and Growth (Washington: Commission on Growth and Development; World Bank, c2010), ed. by David W. Brady and Michael Spence (PDF with commentary at worldbank.org)
• Paths Out Of Poverty: The Role Of Private Enterprise in Developing Countries (Washnigton: International Finance Corporation, 2000), by International Finance Corporation (PDF at World Bank)
• The Poorest and Hungry: Assessments, Analyses, And Actions (an IFPRI 2020 book; Washington: International Food Policy Research Institute, c2009), ed. by Joachim Von Braun, Ruth Vargas Hill, and Rajul Pandya-Lorch (at ifpri.org)
• Transforming Natural Resources for Human Development: a Resource Systems Framework for Development Policy, by Kenneth Ruddle and Dennis A. Rondinelli (HTML at UNU Press)

• Aid to Developing Countries: The Technology/Ecology Fit (1987), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• Odious Debts: Loose Lending, Corruption, and the Third World's Environmental Legacy (1991), by Patricia Adams (HTML at probeinternational.org)

• Soviet Political Perspectives on Power Projection (RAND note N-2430-A, 1987), by Francis Fukuyama, Scott Bruckner, and Sally W. Stoecker (PDF with commentary at rand.org)

• Wars of the Third Kind: Conflict in Underdeveloped Countries (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988), by Edward E. Rice (HTML at UC Press)

• Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition (partial serial archives)

• The New Landscape: Urbanisation in the Third World (1989), by Charles Correa (PDF files at Wayback Machine (only individual chapter files are downloadable))

• Atlas of Global Development (third edition, c2011), by World Bank (Javascript-dependent page images at issuu.com)

• Land-Based Air Power in Third World Crises (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 1986), by David R. Mets
  • PDF with commentary at Air University Press
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Scaling Up Treatment for the Global AIDS Pandemic (2004), by Institute of Medicine (U.S.) (page images with commentary at NAP)

• New Opportunities for U.S. Universities in Development Assistance: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Environment (OTA-BP-F-71; 1991), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

• Millions Fed: Proven Successes in Agricultural Development (Washington: International Food Policy Research Institute, c2009), ed. by David J. Spielman and Rajul Pandya-Lorch (PDF with commentary at ifpri.org)

• Why Agriculture Productivity Falls: The Political Economy of Agrarian Transition in Developing Countries (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, c2023), by Rashed A. M. Titumir (PDF with commentary at Purdue)

• Healing Wounds: How the International Agricultural Research Centers of the CGIAR Help Rebuild Agriculture in Countries Affected by Conflict and Natural Disasters (c2005), by Surendra Varma and Mark Winslow
  • illustrated HTML at cgiar.org
  • PDF at cgiar.org
• Amaranth to Zai Holes: Ideas for Growing Food Under Difficult Conditions, by Laura S. Meitzner and Martin L. Price (HTML at archive.org)

• Why Agriculture Productivity Falls: The Political Economy of Agrarian Transition in Developing Countries (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, c2023), by Rashed A. M. Titumir (PDF with commentary at Purdue)
• Millions Fed: Proven Successes in Agricultural Development (Washington: International Food Policy Research Institute, c2009), ed. by David J. Spielman and Rajul Pandya-Lorch (PDF with commentary at ifpri.org)

• Scaling Up Treatment for the Global AIDS Pandemic (2004), by Institute of Medicine (U.S.) (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Mimar Houses, ed. by Brian Brace Taylor (PDF files at archnet.org (scroll down inset to "Associated Documents" for chapter links and downloads))

• The Baby Killer: A War on Want Investigation Into the Promotion and Sale of Powdered Baby Milks in the Third World (London: War on Want, 1974), by Mike Muller (PDF with commentary at waronwant.org)

• Paths Out Of Poverty: The Role Of Private Enterprise in Developing Countries (Washnigton: International Finance Corporation, 2000), by International Finance Corporation (PDF at World Bank)

• By the Sweat and Toil of Children: A Report to Congress (initial child labor report, 1994), by United States Department of Labor (HTML and PDF at dol.gov)

• Marketing and Promotion of Infant Formula in Developing Countries: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on International Economic Policy and Trade of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, Ninety-Sixth Congress, Second Session, January 30 and February 11, 1980 (Washington: GPO, 1980), by United State House Subcommittee on International Economic Policy and Trade (page images at HathiTrust)
• Marketing and Promotion of Infant Formula in the Developing Nations, 1978: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research of the Committee on Human Resources, United States Senate, Ninety-fifth Congress, Second Session (Washington: GPO, 1978), by United State Senate Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research (page images at HathiTrust)

• The New Landscape: Urbanisation in the Third World (1989), by Charles Correa (PDF files at Wayback Machine (only individual chapter files are downloadable))

• The New Marxist-Leninist states in the Third World (RAND paper P-7020, 1984), by Francis Fukuyama (PDF with commentary at rand.org)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.