British industrial capitalism since the industrial revolution
Roger Lloyd-Jones (Author), M. J. Lewis (Author)
The authors use a long-wave framework to examine the historical evolution of British industrial capitalism since the late-18th century, and present a challenging and distinctive economic history of modern and contemporary Britain.
History
1 online resource (290 pages) : illustrations
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1. Introduction : theories of industrial capitalism and the long wave
2. The industrial revolution Kondratieff
3. The political economy of the first downsing, 1815-40s
4. The upswing of the second Kondratieff : a mid-Victorian boom
5. The late Victorian economy : decline and downsing, 1873-96
6. The missing upswing and Edwardian crisis, c. 1896-1914
7. The downswing of the third Kondratieff : depression and unemployment in interwar Britain
8. The upswing of the fourth Kondratieff : Britain during the long boom
9. The post-1978 downswing : de-industrialization and the Thatcher experiment
10. Conclusion : the long wave and British industrial capitalism