Industrialisation & industrial history books

How working-class socialist women changed the course of American history.  Read More >>

The history of Ukrainian town Hughesovka, a mining/steel town founded in the 1870s by Welsh entrepreneur John Hughes...  Read More >>

""As the coal industry has declined in Central Appalachia, prisons have emerged as a primary way that the state...  Read More >>

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Consulate of Bilbao is a study framed between the peninsular consular histories, from the appearance of the...  Read More >>

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

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

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

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This book focuses on peoples' post-war experiences as they were rehoused from overcrowded and unsanitary Victorian...  Read More >>

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

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

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

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

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