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Article: Britain's Industrial Revolution.
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- Business History
- Article date:
- April 1, 1993
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Pat Hudson believes, somewhat unfashionably, that there was an Industrial Revolution. Although recent measurements suggest little economic growth in the short run, the activities of the period initiated a radical and longer term transformation of the British economy and society. Furthermore, as Hudson persuasively argues in this text designed primarily for an undergraduate readership, the use of a wider conception of the Industrial Revolution, in which social, political and cultural forces are integrated into the economic process rather than portrayed as separate cause and effect, allows elements of both evolution and discontinuity to be discerned. Although Hudson ultimately ...