About this title: The Industrial Revolution has sometimes been regarded as a catastrophe which desecrated the English landscape and brought social opporession and appalling physical hardship to the workers. In this book, however, it is presented as an important and beneficial mark of progress. In spite of destructive wars and a rapid growth of population, the material living standards of most of the British people improved, and the technical innovations not only brought economic rewards but also provoked greater intellectual ingenuity. Innovation is therefore seen by Ashton not just as an economic course but ...
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Edition: Reprint.
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, New York
Date Published: 1969
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. No Writing. No Highlighting. 118 p.; 21 cm. A Galaxy book GB109.. Bibliography: p. 113-115. read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Very Good. Great condition for a used book! Minimal wear. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Fair. [ No Hassle 30 Day Returns ] [ Underlining/Highlighting: SOME ] [ Writing: SOME ] [ Torn pages: NO ] [ Broken Seams: NO ] Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA Pub Date: 12/31/1964 Binding: Paperback Pages: 128. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: 1964-12-31
ISBN-13:9780195002522ISBN:0195002520
Description: Good. Nice paperback book w/tight & square binding, 1969 printing. No creases in cover or spine. No names, no remainder marks, no stickers. Pages are somewhat tanned. Faint highlighting. Bottom of pages slightly wrinkled. Careful packaging and fast shipping. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Description: Good. Softcover, tight book, nice text, some wear to cover, some fading, pen marking and underlining to pages books may have some minor wearhouse damage. Stickers may be on spine or covers. read more
Edition: LATER PRINT
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1969
ISBN-13:9780195002522ISBN:0195002520
Description: Good. HISTORY. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. WHITE AND MINT GREEN SPINE ON SOFTCOVER BOOK. OXFORD UNIV. PRESS. REPRINTED WITH REVISIONS, . 118 PAGES. 4 PAGES HAVE UNDERSCORING. FORMER OWNERS NAME ON FRONT END PAPER. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, New York
Date Published: 1957
Description: Very Good- in Good jacket. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Later printing. Light dust soiling to the edges and pencil underlining to the text. The jacket has one dime sized chip and a few small one. read more
"The opening chapter (Introduction) explains it best, "Men and women born and bred on the countryside came to live crowded together, earning their bread, no longer as families or groups of neighbors, but as units in the Labour Force of Factories, work grew to be more specialized, new forms of skill were developed, and some old forms lost." In spite of the obvious boom of industry, there was a down side to these advances, as it drastically affected people's lives as well as their livlihood. Additional chapters include Earlier Forms of Industry, Individualism and Laisser-Faire, and The Course of the Economic Age. Good reference for term papers etc."
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