Selected posthumously from Arnold Toynbee's lectures, this 1884 collection is one of the first scholarly treatments of the Industrial Revolution.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Memoir Benjamin Jowett; Prefatory note; Ricardo and the Old Political Economy: 1. The change that has come over political economy; 2. The philosophic assumption of Ricardo; The Industrial Revolution: 1. Introductory; 2. England in 1760 - population; 3. England in 1760 - agriculture; 4. England in 1760 - manufacture and trade; 5. England in 1760 - the decay of the yeomanry; 6. England in 1760 - the condition of the wage-earners; 7. The mercantile system and Adam Smith; 8. The chief features of the revolution; 9. The growth of pauperism; 10. Malthus and the law of population; 11. The wage-fund theory; 12. Ricardo and the growth of rent; 13. Two theories of economic progress; 14. The future of the working classes; Popular Addresses: 1. Wages and natural law; 2. Industry and democracy; 3. Are radicals socialists?; 4. The education of co-operators; 5. The ideal relation of church and state; Notes and jottings; Index; Appendix.
