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, but — as this book argues — above all it was communities of shared skill, knowledge and experience which drove industrial innovation in the eighteenth century.

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