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This new version of The Age of Manufactures presents a thrilling substitute evaluate of the eighteenth-century British economic climate. contemporary macro-economic historical past has discounted a number of the achievements of the economic Revolution. Maxine Berg argues that on the middle of the commercial Revolution, we discover many new customer industries utilizing a women's staff, and bringing with them a wealthy range of technological and organizational swap. 4 new chapters discover contemporary views on: * the commercial Revolution * Eighteenth century industries * Machines and handbook labour * the increase of the manufacturing unit approach Statistical summaries, and a radical revision of the entire textual content have refreshed and improved this well-established and demanding contribution to British ecomonic historical past.
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Yorkshire took over the woollen and worsted industry, increasing its share of national woollen output from 20 to 60 per cent during the century. The metal and hardware trades found their home in the Midlands, South Yorkshire, South Lancashire and the Glasgow region. The coalfields might dictate The age of manufactures 22 industrial locations, perhaps only in the first instance. 31 The new canal networks reinforced these internally unified, but separate, regions. 33 Regionalization during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries did not mean industrial production for local needs or home markets.
26 There are many examples of this kind of overlap between services, agriculture and industry. Entrepreneurs and artisans diversified their portfolios and their activities to reduce the risks attendant on trade and harvest fluctuations, and also stood to gain from the external economies created by overlaps such as those found by Peter Stubs. An account of the industrial sector must rely on far more than estimates of national industrial output, or even an aggregation of estimates of production and productivity change industry by industry.
With these overall indications of the progress of British industry, and questions we can raise about just how much these indicators tell us, we will now turn to look at the patterns of growth in various industrial groups. THE TEXTILE INDUSTRIES The textile group of industries contained Crafts’s ‘glamour industry’, cotton, and three ‘traditional industries’, wool and worsted, linen and silk. We can compare their relative positions within British industry, and their performance in output. A comparison of these industries shows that the ‘traditional’ woollen industry still dominated the whole industrial sector at the beginning of the nineteenth century, and was still more important in terms of value added than the cotton industry until the 1820s.