Industrialisation & industrial history books

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Empowering Communities: How Electric Cooperatives Transformed Rural South Carolina

Empowering Communities: How Electric Cooperatives Transformed...

Author: Lacy K. Ford, Jr. ,  Jared Bailey
ISBN: 9781643362694
Format: Paperback
$79.17

The rise of ‘public’ power - electricity serviced by member-owned cooperatives - is a complicated saga encompassing...  Read More >>

Founders of the Future: The Science and Industry of Spanish Modernization

Founders of the Future: The Science and Industry of...

Author: Óscar Iván Useche
ISBN: 9781684483853
Format: Paperback
$50.00

In this ambitious new interdisciplinary study, Useche proposes the metaphor of the social foundry to parse how industrialization...  Read More >>

Wartime Industry

Wartime Industry

Author: Neil R. Storey
ISBN: 9781784425029
Format: Paperback
$19.99

An illustrated introduction to how British industries, supported by thousands of newly recruited women, strove to...  Read More >>

Founders of the Future: The Science and Industry of Spanish Modernization

Founders of the Future: The Science and Industry of...

Author: Óscar Iván Useche
ISBN: 9781684483860
Format: Hardback
$209.00

In this ambitious new interdisciplinary study, Useche proposes the metaphor of the social foundry to parse how industrialization...  Read More >>

Contemporary Studies on Modern Chinese History II

Contemporary Studies on Modern Chinese History II

Author: Zeng Yeying ,  Yanwen Sun
ISBN: 9780367548827
Format: Paperback
$83.99

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Port-Cities and their Hinterlands: Migration, Trade and Cultural Exchange from the Early Seventeenth Century to 1939

Port-Cities and their Hinterlands: Migration, Trade...

Author: Robert Lee ,  Paul McNamara
ISBN: 9780415580526
Format: Hardback
$271.69

This interdisciplinary book brings together eleven original contributions by scholars in the United Kingdom, continental...  Read More >>

Britain’s Heritage Railways: Discover More Than 100 Historic Lines

Britain’s Heritage Railways: Discover More Than 100...

Author: Julian Holland
ISBN: 9780008467982
Format: Paperback
$32.99

Explore Britain's remaining historic lines with railway expert Julian Holland. The essential guide to...  Read More >>

Neighbours of Passage: A Microhistory of Migrants in a Paris Tenement, 1882–1932

Neighbours of Passage: A Microhistory of Migrants in...

Author: Fabrice Langrognet
ISBN: 9780367862350
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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Heads of the Local State: Mayors, Provosts and Burgomasters since 1800

Heads of the Local State: Mayors, Provosts and Burgomasters...

Author: John Garrard
ISBN: 9781138357051
Format: Paperback
$62.99

In recent decades there has been increasing historical interest in various aspects of local urban politics, resulting...  Read More >>

African American Workers and the Appalachian Coal Industry

African American Workers and the Appalachian Coal Industry...

Author: Joe William Trotter
ISBN: 9781952271182
Format: Hardback
$59.40

Brings together three decades of research on the African American experience, class, and race relations in the Appalachian...  Read More >>

Workplace Relations in Colonial Bengal: The Jute Industry and Indian Labour 1870s-1930s

Workplace Relations in Colonial Bengal: The Jute Industry...

Author: Anna Sailer (Centre for Modern Indian Studies, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany)
ISBN: 9781350233539
Format: Hardback
$180.00

This book connects the history of labour movements with the transformation of workplace relations in South Asia...  Read More >>

Feelings and Work in Modern History: Emotional Labour and Emotions about Labour

Feelings and Work in Modern History: Emotional Labour...

Author: Agnes Arnold-Forster ,  Alison Moulds
ISBN: 9781350197183
Format: Hardback
$180.00

Work in all its guises is a fundamental part of the human experience, and yet it is a setting where emotions rarely...  Read More >>

Utopia and Modernity in China: Contradictions in Transition

Utopia and Modernity in China: Contradictions in Transition...

Author: David Margolies (Goldsmiths, University of London) ,  Qing Cao (University of Durham)
ISBN: 9780745347394
Format: Paperback
$59.49

Exploring the conflict between China's rapid modernisation and the west, as well as its own traditional values --...  Read More >>

Utopia and Modernity in China: Contradictions in Transition

Utopia and Modernity in China: Contradictions in Transition...

Author: David Margolies (Goldsmiths, University of London) ,  Qing Cao (University of Durham)
ISBN: 9780745341583
Format: Hardback
$219.94

Exploring the conflict between China's rapid modernisation and the west, as well as its own traditional values --...  Read More >>

The Cornish Miner in America: The Contribution to the Mining History of the United States by Emigrant Cornish Miners — the Men Called Cousin Jacks

The Cornish Miner in America: The Contribution to the...

Author: Arthur Cecil Todd
ISBN: 9780806190280
Format: Paperback
$57.95

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Workers and Democracy: The Indonesian Labour Movement, 1949-1957

Workers and Democracy: The Indonesian Labour Movement,...

Author: John Ingleson
ISBN: 9789813251601
Format: Paperback
$80.08

Presents a study of workers activism and labour unions in the eight years between the recognition of Indonesian...  Read More >>

The Emergence of an Industrial Labor Force in India: A Study of the Bombay Cotton Mills, 1854-1947

The Emergence of an Industrial Labor Force in India:...

Author: David Morris Morris
ISBN: 9780520316959
Format: Paperback
$65.95

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission...  Read More >>

The Emergence of an Industrial Labor Force in India: A Study of the Bombay Cotton Mills, 1854-1947

The Emergence of an Industrial Labor Force in India:...

Author: David Morris Morris
ISBN: 9780520361577
Format: Hardback
$140.95

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission...  Read More >>

Moderne Zeiten: Industrie Im Blick Von Malerei Und Forografie

Moderne Zeiten: Industrie Im Blick Von Malerei Und Forografie...

Author: Kathrin Baumstark ,  Andreas Hoffmann
ISBN: 9783777437996
Format: Hardback
$131.87

Industriebilder in Malerei und Fotografie von der Mitte des 19. Jahrhundert bis heute offenbaren ein breites Spektrum...  Read More >>

Labor's End: How the Promise of Automation Degraded Work

Labor's End: How the Promise of Automation Degraded...

Author: Jason Resnikoff
ISBN: 9780252086298
Format: Paperback
$54.99

Labor's End traces the discourse around automation from its origins in the factory to its wide-ranging implications...  Read More >>

Labor's End: How the Promise of Automation Degraded Work

Labor's End: How the Promise of Automation Degraded...

Author: Jason Resnikoff
ISBN: 9780252044250
Format: Hardback
$239.00

Labor's End traces the discourse around automation from its origins in the factory to its wide-ranging implications...  Read More >>

The World's Last Steam Locomotives in Industry: The 20th Century

The World's Last Steam Locomotives in Industry: The...

Author: Gordon Edgar
ISBN: 9781445685090
Format: Paperback
$51.72

A stunning collection of rare photographs documenting the last years of industrial steam around the world.  Read More >>

The Soho Manufactory, Mint and Foundry, West Midlands: Where Boulton, Watt and Murdoch Made History

The Soho Manufactory, Mint and Foundry, West Midlands:...

Author: George Demidowicz
ISBN: 9781800349285
Format: Hardback
$113.85

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