CONTENTS:

Chapter I – The Industrial Revolution to 1815
1. The visible signs of progress
2. The historian’s changing interest
3. The debate on origins
4. Population
5. The capital requirements of industry
6. The progress of technology
7. Business enterprise
8. The role of the government
9. The impact of war
10. The need to keep a balanced view

Chapter II – Signs of Strain
1. Industrial Revolution: first or final stage?
2. Agriculture in the early nineteenth century
3. The economic and social cots of industrialisation
4. The hand-loom weavers
5. Workers’s movements in the first half of the nineteenth century
6. Ned Lud and Captain Swing
7. The organised worker
8. Friendly societies and co-operative societies
9. The development of trade unions

Chapter III – Mid-Victorian Prosperity
1. The Great Exhibition of 1851
2. Railway development
3. Shipping
4. Coal
5. Iron, steel and engineering
6. The organisation of industry and banking
7. High farming
8. Trade unions

Chapter IV – Britain and the World
1. The opening up of the world
2. Britain and the industrialisation of Europe
3. The statistics of foreign trade
4. The coming of free trade
5. The growth of trade and the balance of payments
6. The export of capital
7. Emigration

Chapter V – The End of Supremacy
1. The legend of the Great Depression
2. British industrial retardation: the arguments
3. The changing structure of British industry
4. New industries
5. Agriculture
6. The condition of the people
7. The labour movement