Making an Industrial Revolution : Skill, Knowledge, Community and Innovation /
A new look at Britain's industrial revolution showing how communities of shared skill, knowledge and experience drove industrial innovation.Making an Industrial Revolution presents a fresh perspective on British industrialization. Advances in technology, commerce and science played their part,...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Woodbridge :
The Boydell Press,
2025.
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| Summary: | A new look at Britain's industrial revolution showing how communities of shared skill, knowledge and experience drove industrial innovation.Making an Industrial Revolution presents a fresh perspective on British industrialization. Advances in technology, commerce and science played their part, but - as this book argues - above all it was communities of shared skill, knowledge and experience which drove industrial innovation in the eighteenth century.Connections and relationships in key sectors - iron, textiles and engineering - produced transformative forces that revolutionized industrial life in Britain. Including new insights into Scotland's unique contribution, the book explores industrial change across the country, highlighting the significance of inter-regional and overseas migration and connection. It considers how social status enabled or limited individuals. It questions how exactly eighteenth-century science linked with emerging industrial technologies; and the importance of science, relative to skills and experience, in shaping innovation. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781805434399 (electronic bk.) 180543439X 9781805434405 1805434403 |