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.

Connections and relationships in key sectors - iron, textiles and engineering - produced transformative forces that revolutionized industrial life in Britain. Including new insights into Scotland's unique contribution, the book explores industrial change across the country, highlighting the significance of inter-regional and overseas migration and connection. It considers how social status enabled or limited individuals. It questions how exactly eighteenth-century science linked with emerging industrial technologies; and the importance of science, relative to skills and experience, in shaping innovation.

About the author

Gillian Cookson

Summary

A new look at Britain's industrial revolution showing how communities of shared skill, knowledge and experience drove industrial innovation.

Product details

• Authors: Gillian Cookson
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.2025
• EAN: 9781837651412
• ISBN: 978-1-83765-141-2
• No. of pages: 264
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 409 g
• Illustrations: 14 b/w illus, 1 map
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries