Locating the Industrial Revolution:Inducement and Response

Eric L Jones
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Eric L Jones: La Trobe University, Australia

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Abstract: The familiar industrialisation of northern England and less familiar de-industrialisation of the south are shown to have depended on a common process. Neither rise nor decline resulted from differences in natural resource endowments, since they began before the use of coal and steam in manufacturing. Instead, political certainty, competitive ideology and Enlightenment optimism encouraged investment in transport and communications. This integrated the national market, intensifying competition between regions and altering economic distributions. Despite a dysfunctional landed system, agricultural innovation meant that the south's comparative advantage shifted towards the farm sector. Meanwhile its manufactures slowly declined. Once industry clustered in the less benign northern environment, technological changes in manufacturing accumulated there.

Keywords: Natural Resource Endowment; Industrial Revolution; Regional Competition; Market Competition; Industrialisation; De-Industrialisation; Landed System; Bourgeois Values; Transport Investment; Technological Innovation; Network Advantages; The Enlightenment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
ISBN: 9789814295253
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 INTRODUCTION , pp 1-19

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Ch 2 THE VIEW FROM LITTLE ENGLAND , pp 21-43

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Ch 3 THE ANOMALY OF THE SOUTH , pp 47-70

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Ch 4 SCARCE RESOURCES? , pp 71-90

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Ch 5 POSSIBLE EXPLANATIONS , pp 91-106

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Ch 6 FURTHER POSSIBILITIES , pp 107-122

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Ch 7 PROSPERITY, POVERTY AND BOURGEOIS VALUES , pp 123-145

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Ch 8 DE-INDUSTRIALISATION AND THE LANDED SYSTEM , pp 147-164

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Ch 9 POLITICS AND IDEAS , pp 167-191

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Ch 10 TRANSPORT AND MARKETING , pp 193-214

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Ch 11 THE PACE OF CHANGE , pp 215-236

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Ch 12 NORTH AND SOUTH , pp 239-257

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