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Article: Industrialising English Law: Entrepreneurship and Business Organisation, 1720-1844.
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- Michigan Law Review
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- May 1, 2002
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INDUSTRIALIZING ENGLISH LAW: ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND BUSINESS ORGANIZATION 1720-1844. By Ron Harris. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2000. Pp. xvi, 331. Cloth, $60.
This is a study of the evolution of the forms of business organization during the industrial revolution. Historians never fully agree about anything at all, and often with good reason, but there is really no doubt that the period covered by this book is one that saw major changes in agricultural and industrial production, and in commercial practice and organization. It is convenient to refer broadly to the changes which took place in terms of a revolution, industrial, agricultural, or less ...