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Edited with an Introduction by Philip A. M. Taylor

FROM THE INTRODUCTION: “While the phrase "…Industrial Revolution," or something like it, can be found very early in the nineteenth century, it was given its wide currency by the lectures de¬livered at Oxford by Arnold ToynSefc and published in 1884, after his early death. It was in the eighth of these lectures that Toynbee summed up his views about the period 1750-1850. He pointed out the rapid growth of population; the moderniza¬tion both of the techniques and of the or¬ganization of farming, especially the trans¬forming, by the process of enclosure, of medieval open fields into modern compact farms; the rapidity of invention in industry, above all in textiles; the development of powerful machines and their grouping into factories. To him, these changes seemed emphatically revolutionary. But he thought he saw, in addition to these material changes, a change of outlook, from the medieval desire to regulate economic life to a modem acceptance of free competition. He considered that for the lower classes in town and country the total result was distastrous, "Production on a vast scale,” he said at the end of Lecture VII, "the result of free competition, led to a rapid alienation of classes and to the degradation of a large body of producers.”-

Boston. D. C. Heath Co. Problems In European Civilization.. 1958. 108p.

J. L. And Barbara Hammond

FROM CHAPTER 9: “When the opponents of factory legislation found it difficult to persuade reformers that the children working in their mills were happy and well, they tried another argument and asked why it was only children in the factories that deserved the protection of the State. There was some point in the challenge…”

London. Guild Books. 1917. 160p. USED BOOK. MAY CONTAIN MARK-UP

By J. L. And Barbara Hammond

FROM THE PREFACE: “The Industrial Revolution is apt to leave the light of history for the shadows of politics. Books is which it is discussed in one or other of its aspects are therefore liable to excite sympathies and animosities, not so much by what the writer says, as by what the reader finds between the lines. It is perhaps not out of place, in view of the course that controversy on this subject has taken since this book was first published, to describe the general outlook from which it was composed. A civilisation is the use to which an age puts its resources of wealth, knowledge, and power, inorderto ercate a social life. These resources vary widely from age to age. The Industrial Revolution brought a great extension of material power and of the opportunities that such power bestows…..”

London. Guild Books. 1917. 343p. USED BOOK. MAY CONTAIN MARK-UP