Industrialisation & industrial history books

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Occupy!: A Short History of Worker's Occupations

Occupy!: A Short History of Worker's Occupations

Author: Dave Sherry
ISBN: 9781905192625
Format: Paperback
$18.09

A short, accessible history of workplace occupations rich with first-hand accounts and political analysis.  Read More >>

The Big Fella: The Rise And Rise Of BHP Billiton

The Big Fella: The Rise And Rise Of BHP Billiton

Author: Robert Macklin ,  Peter Thompson
ISBN: 9781741667110
Format: Paperback
$50.03

BHP is part of Australia's DNA; but it remains an enigma. This is the compelling story of how BHP and its partner...  Read More >>

Seed Money: Growing America's Great Seed Companies

Seed Money: Growing America's Great Seed Companies

Author: Priscilla Dunhill
ISBN: 9781933979502
Format: Hardback
$92.40

Chronicling a little-known aspect of this country's rich agricultural history, this documentation highlights the...  Read More >>

Through Scotland with the Caledonian Railway

Through Scotland with the Caledonian Railway

Author: A. J. Mullay
ISBN: 9781840334913
Format: Hardback
$77.63

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Iron and Steel: A Driving Guide to the Birmingham Area Industrial Heritage

Iron and Steel: A Driving Guide to the Birmingham Area...

Author: James Bennett ,  Karen Utz
ISBN: 9780817356118
Format: Paperback
$52.67

This guidebook of historic iron-production sites is designed to give the reader a factual and illuminating look...  Read More >>

The Entrepreneurial Society of the Rhondda Valleys, 1840-1920: Power and Influence in the Porth-Pontypridd Region

The Entrepreneurial Society of the Rhondda Valleys,...

Author: Richard Griffiths
ISBN: 9780708322901
Format: Hardback
$140.00

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Auto Mechanics: Technology and Expertise in Twentieth-Century America

Auto Mechanics: Technology and Expertise in Twentieth-Century...

Author: Kevin L. Borg (Professor, James Madison University)
ISBN: 9780801894855
Format: Paperback
$78.99

In the history of the American auto mechanic, Borg finds the origins of a persistent anxiety that even today accompanies...  Read More >>

The Great Brunel

The Great Brunel

Author: Chris Morris
ISBN: 9780956435811
Format: Paperback
$33.61

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The Story of Abaca: Manila Hemp's Transformation from Textile to Marine Cordage and Specialty Paper

The Story of Abaca: Manila Hemp's Transformation from...

Author: Lydia Yu-Jose
ISBN: 9789715505840
Format: Paperback
$134.64

‘The Story of Abaca’ is a human story told through the experiences of farmers, traders, and entrepreneurs who cultivate,...  Read More >>

New York Longshoremen: Class and Power on the Docks

New York Longshoremen: Class and Power on the Docks...

Author: William J. Mello
ISBN: 9780813034898
Format: Hardback
$132.00

A superb history of labor on the East Coast waterfront that may be the best account we have, not only of the industry,...  Read More >>

Industrial Development in Pre-Communist China: 1912-1949

Industrial Development in Pre-Communist China: 1912-1949...

Author: Sybil B. G. Eysenck ,  John Chang
ISBN: 9780202363660
Format: Paperback
$98.99

The Chinese economy has been the subject of substantial research in recent years in the United States and abroad...  Read More >>

Coffee and Transformation in Sao Paulo, Brazil

Coffee and Transformation in Sao Paulo, Brazil

Author: Mauricio A. Font
ISBN: 9780739147504
Format: Hardback
$179.95

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The Turbulent Years: A History of the American Worker, 1933-1941

The Turbulent Years: A History of the American Worker,...

Author: Frances Fox Piven ,  Irving Bernstein
ISBN: 9781608460649
Format: Paperback
$49.99

The era of American labor's greatest struggles, vividly reconstructed by one of labor history's greatest historians....  Read More >>

The Lean Years: A History of the American Worker, 1920-1933

The Lean Years: A History of the American Worker, 1920-1933...

Author: Frances Fox Piven ,  Irving Bernstein
ISBN: 9781608460632
Format: Paperback
$44.99

A fascinating, comprehensive study of the American workforce, from the ""roaring twenties"" through the Great Depression....  Read More >>

Enclosing Water: Nature and Political Economy in a Mediterranean Valley, 1796-1916

Enclosing Water: Nature and Political Economy in a Mediterranean...

Author: Stefania Barca
ISBN: 9781874267577
Format: Paperback
$87.12

Enclosing Water is an environmental history of the Industrial Revolution, as inscribed on the Liri valley in Italy's...  Read More >>

Enclosing Water: Nature and Political Economy in a Mediterranean Valley, 1796-1916

Enclosing Water: Nature and Political Economy in a Mediterranean...

Author: Stefania Barca
ISBN: 9781874267560
Format: Hardback
$211.20

Enclosing Water is an environmental history of the Industrial Revolution, as inscribed on the Liri valley in Italy's...  Read More >>

The Industrial Revolution: Britain, 1770–1810

The Industrial Revolution: Britain, 1770–1810

Author: Jonathan Downs
ISBN: 9780747807810
Format: Paperback
$46.99

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Victoria's Children of the Dark

Victoria's Children of the Dark

Author: Alan Gallop
ISBN: 9780752456980
Format: Paperback
$25.85

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The History of the Book in the West: 400AD–1455: Volume I

The History of the Book in the West: 400AD–1455: Volume...

Author: Pamela Robinson ,  Jane Roberts
ISBN: 9780754627739
Format: Hardback
$683.00

A selection of papers that introduces students to the history of the book in the West from late Antiquity to the...  Read More >>

A Brief History of How the Industrial Revolution Changed the World

A Brief History of How the Industrial Revolution Changed...

Author: Thomas Crump
ISBN: 9781845298975
Format: Paperback
$26.99

The ideas, people and inventions that built the modern world  Read More >>

Transforming Labour: Women and Work in Postwar Canada

Transforming Labour: Women and Work in Postwar Canada...

Author: Joan Sangster
ISBN: 9780802096524
Format: Paperback
$84.99

Transforming Labour offers one of the first critical assessments of women's paid labour in this era, a period when...  Read More >>

Network Nation: Inventing American Telecommunications

Network Nation: Inventing American Telecommunications...

Author: Richard R. John
ISBN: 9780674024298
Format: Hardback
$105.47

The telegraph and the telephone were the first electrical communications networks to become hallmarks of modernity....  Read More >>

Transforming Labour: Women and Work in Postwar Canada

Transforming Labour: Women and Work in Postwar Canada...

Author: Joan Sangster
ISBN: 9780802097118
Format: Hardback
$198.00

Transforming Labour offers one of the first critical assessments of women's paid labour in this era, a period when...  Read More >>

The British Motor Industry

The British Motor Industry

Author: Jonathan Wood
ISBN: 9780747807681
Format: Paperback
$36.99

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