Provides an alternative overview of the 18th-century British economy. Recent macroeconomic history has presented a male industrial revolution as the general experience, but new textiles and metal industries were primarily employers of women. This edition covers these industries.

The Age of Manufactures reasserts the primacy of the industrial experience to Britain's Industrial Revolution. In this new edition, additional chapters, graphics and statistical summaries as well as revision of other chapters have refreshed and enhanced this well-established and important contribution to British economic history.

Introduction Part One Manufacture and the Economy 1. Current Perspectives and New Departures 2. Industries 3. Models of
Industrial Transition 4. Agriculture, Resources, Environment 5. Industrial Decline 6. Trade, Consumption and Manufacturing 7. Women, Children and Work Part Two - Paths to the Industrial Revolution 8. Machines and Manual Labour 9. The Rise of the Factory System 10. The Textile Industries: Organizing
Work 11. Textile Industries: Technologies 12. The Metal and
Hardware Trades