Industrialisation & industrial history books

2359 books were found.

Capitalism, Inequality and Labour in India

Capitalism, Inequality and Labour in India

Author: Jan Breman (Universiteit van Amsterdam)
ISBN: 9781108712279
Format: Paperback
$64.66

Jan Breman analyses labour bondage in India's changing political economy from 1962 to 2017. Focusing on what has...  Read More >>

Optimizing the German Workforce: Labor Administration from Bismarck to the Economic Miracle

Optimizing the German Workforce: Labor Administration...

Author: David Meskill
ISBN: 9781800737297
Format: Paperback
$41.27

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Management and Labor Conflict: An Introduction to the US and Canadian History

Management and Labor Conflict: An Introduction to the...

Author: Jason Russell
ISBN: 9780367271251
Format: Hardback
$96.99

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Bricks of Victorian London: A social and economic history

Bricks of Victorian London: A social and economic history...

Author: Peter Hounsell
ISBN: 9781912260560
Format: Hardback
$90.56

Many of London’s Victorian buildings are built of coarse-textured yellow bricks – London stocks, produced in huge...  Read More >>

Churchill's American Arsenal: The Partnership Behind the Innovations that Won World War Two

Churchill's American Arsenal: The Partnership Behind...

Author: Larrie D. Ferreiro (Adjunct Faculty, Adjunct Faculty, George Mason University)
ISBN: 9780197554012
Format: Hardback
$58.95

"Churchill's American Arsenal describes in depth how WWII became the ""War of Factories,"" telling the heroic narratives...  Read More >>

The Washington Apple: Orchards and the Development of Industrial Agriculture

The Washington Apple: Orchards and the Development of...

Author: Amanda L. Van Lanen
ISBN: 9780806190662
Format: Hardback
$92.27

How did Washington become the leading producer of America’s most popular fruit? In this enlightening book, Amanda...  Read More >>

Water in the Making of a Socio-Natural Landscape: Rome and Its Surroundings, 1870–1922

Water in the Making of a Socio-Natural Landscape: Rome...

Author: Salvatore Valenti
ISBN: 9781032184180
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Water in the Making of a Socio-Natural Landscape explores the transition from early modern to modern water management...  Read More >>

For a Better World: The Winnipeg General Strike and the Workers' Revolt

For a Better World: The Winnipeg General Strike and...

Author: James Naylor ,  Rhonda L. Hinther
ISBN: 9780887552991
Format: Paperback
$82.67

Interrogates types of commemoration and remembrance, current legacies of the Winnipeg General Strike, and its ongoing...  Read More >>

For a Better World: The Winnipeg General Strike and the Workers' Revolt

For a Better World: The Winnipeg General Strike and...

Author: James Naylor ,  Rhonda L. Hinther
ISBN: 9780887550881
Format: Hardback
$184.80

Canada's largest and most famous example of class conflict, the Winnipeg General Strike, redefined local, national,...  Read More >>

A Very British Conspiracy: The Shrewsbury 24 and the Campaign for Justice

A Very British Conspiracy: The Shrewsbury 24 and the...

Author: Eileen Turnbull
ISBN: 9781804290149
Format: Paperback
$32.99

The story of the campaign for justice for the 24 building workers wrongly prosecuted by the state in the 1970s  Read More >>

Working Americans, 1880-2022: Vol. 18: Health Care Workers

Working Americans, 1880-2022: Vol. 18: Health Care Workers...

Author: Laura Mars
ISBN: 9781637003855
Format: Hardback
$251.90

The 18th volume in the Working Americans series focuses on health care workers from 1880 to 2022. This resource...  Read More >>

Occasions of State: Early Modern European Festivals and the Negotiation of Power

Occasions of State: Early Modern European Festivals...

Author: J.R. Mulryne ,  Krista De Jonge
ISBN: 9781032401720
Format: Paperback
$81.99

Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century court and civic festivals incorporated the political ambitions and aesthetic...  Read More >>

Architectures of Festival in Early Modern Europe: Fashioning and Re-fashioning Urban and Courtly Space

Architectures of Festival in Early Modern Europe: Fashioning...

Author: J.R. Mulryne (University of Warwick, UK (Emeritus)) ,  Krista De Jonge
ISBN: 9781032402086
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Early modern European festivals were the catalyst for the creation of many temporary and occasionally permanent...  Read More >>

Transforming the Countryside: The Electrification of Rural Britain

Transforming the Countryside: The Electrification of...

Author: Paul Brassley ,  Jeremy Burchardt
ISBN: 9781032402291
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This edited collection of essays shows how new electrical technology changed rural life in Britain in the twentieth...  Read More >>

The Last American Newspaper: An Institution in Peril, Through the Eyes of a Small-Town Editor

The Last American Newspaper: An Institution in Peril,...

Author: Ken Tingley
ISBN: 9781476688268
Format: Paperback
$64.90

Represents what is happening in small communities across the United States as their newspapers struggle to survive....  Read More >>

The Proto-Industrial Architecture of the Veneto: in the Age of Palladio

The Proto-Industrial Architecture of the Veneto: in...

Author: Deborah Howard
ISBN: 9788833671819
Format: Paperback
$69.99

An exploration of the hitherto neglected architectural legacy of the boom in manufacturing in the Veneto in the...  Read More >>

When a Dream Dies: Agriculture, Iowa, and the Farm Crisis of the 1980s

When a Dream Dies: Agriculture, Iowa, and the Farm Crisis...

Author: Pamela Riney-Kehrberg
ISBN: 9780700633555
Format: Hardback
$105.47

Explores the Farm Crisis of the 1980s from the perspective of the two-thirds of the state’s agricultural population...  Read More >>

Utilities and Industrial History

Utilities and Industrial History

Author: John F. Wilson (Northumbria University, UK) ,  Steven Toms (University of Leeds, UK)
ISBN: 9781032363509
Format: Hardback
$103.00

This shortform book presents key peer-reviewed research selected by expert series editors and contextualised by...  Read More >>

Lincolnshire Industrial Heritage

Lincolnshire Industrial Heritage

Author: Colin Tyson
ISBN: 9781445688466
Format: Paperback
$41.37

Documenting the county's fascinating industrial history. Which is nowadays associated with food production as the...  Read More >>

Abandoned Train Stations

Abandoned Train Stations

Author: David Ross
ISBN: 9781838861995
Format: Hardback
$51.72

Illustrated with more than 200 photographs, Abandoned Train Stations provides a fascinating pictorial journey through...  Read More >>

A Pipeline Runs Through It: The Story of Oil from Ancient Times to the First World War

A Pipeline Runs Through It: The Story of Oil from Ancient...

Author: Keith Fisher
ISBN: 9780241558225
Format: Hardback
$75.00

The origin story of our modern oil age A Pipeline Runs Through It is a fresh, comprehensive in-depth look at the...  Read More >>

Popular New Orleans: The Crescent City in Periodicals, Theme Parks, and Opera, 1875–2015

Popular New Orleans: The Crescent City in Periodicals,...

Author: Florian Freitag (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
ISBN: 9780367561086
Format: Paperback
$81.99

Popular New Orleans traces the evolution of popular depictions of the Crescent City from 19th-century local-color...  Read More >>

Film Noir and Los Angeles: Urban History and the Dark Imaginary

Film Noir and Los Angeles: Urban History and the Dark...

Author: Sean W. Maher
ISBN: 9780367547998
Format: Paperback
$81.99

This book combines urban theory with film studies and cultural theory to explore how twentieth century Los Angeles...  Read More >>

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