Arnold Toynbee

Lectures on the Industrial Revolution in England

Popular Addresses, Notes and Other Fragments

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Produktbeschreibung

Selected posthumously from Arnold Toynbee's lectures, this 1884 collection is one of the first scholarly treatments of the Industrial Revolution.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 364
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. August 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 513g
• ISBN-13: 9781108036498
• ISBN-10: 110803649X
• Artikelnr.: 34014991

Inhaltsangabe

Memoir Benjamin Jowett
Prefatory note
Ricardo and the Old Political Economy: 1. The change that has come over political economy
2. The philosophic assumption of Ricardo
The Industrial Revolution: 1. Introductory
2. England in 1760 - population
3. England in 1760 - agriculture
4. England in 1760 - manufacture and trade
5. England in 1760 - the decay of the yeomanry
6. England in 1760 - the condition of the wage-earners
7. The mercantile system and Adam Smith
8. The chief features of the revolution
9. The growth of pauperism
10. Malthus and the law of population
11. The wage-fund theory
12. Ricardo and the growth of rent
13. Two theories of economic progress
14. The future of the working classes
Popular Addresses: 1. Wages and natural law
2. Industry and democracy
3. Are radicals socialists?
4. The education of co-operators
5. The ideal relation of church and state
Notes and jottings
Index
Appendix.