One cannot conceive of capitalism without labor. Yet many of the current debates about economic development leading to industrialization fail to directly engage
This is a unique account of working-class childhood during the British industrial revolution, first published in 2010. Using more than 600 autobiographies writt
With England’s Great Transformation, Marc W. Steinberg throws a wrench into our understanding of the English Industrial Revolution, largely revising the thesi
Despite its decline throughout the advanced industrial nations, child labor remains one of the major social, political, and economic concerns of modern history,
This eleventh edition was developed during the encyclopaedia's transition from a British to an American publication. Some of its articles were written by the be