Industrial Revolution reference library [electronic resource] / James L. Outman and Elisabeth M. Outman ; Matthew May, editor.
Covers the ideas and social turmoil that marked this transition as well as the machines, manufacturing processes and energy sources that spurred it on.
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Table of Contents:
- Vol. 1. Almanac: Origins of the Industrial Revolution
- The revolution begins: steam engines, railroads, and steamboats
- New machines and the factory system
- Social and political impact of the first phase of the Industrial Revolution
- The second phase of the Industrial Revolution: 1850-1940
- How things got bigger: economy of scale
- Social and political impact of the second phase of the Industrial Revolution
- The economy goes global: what next?
- Vol. 2. Biographies: Henry Bessemer
- Andrew Carnegie
- Henry Ford
- Robert Fulton
- Samuel Gompers
- Jay Gould
- James J. Hill
- Mary Harris Jones (Mother Jones)
- Karl Marx
- Cyrus McCormick
- J. P. Morgan
- Samuel F. B. Morse
- The muckrakers: Jacob Riis, Upton Sinclair, Lincoln Steffens, Ida Tarbell
- Robert Owen
- John D. Rockefeller
- Theodore Roosevelt
- Adam Smith
- George Stephenson
- James Watt
- George Westinghouse and Nikola Tesla
- Eli Whitney.
- Vol. 3. Primary sources: Ch. 1. Economic theory: Adam Smith
- Andrew Ure
- Karl Marx
- Andrew Carnegie
- Ch. 2. Technological advances and criticisms: Thomas Savery
- The workers and merchants of Leeds
- The Luddites and Charlotte Bronte-- Newspaper accounts regarding the telegraph
- J. D. B. Stillman
- Ch. 3. Working conditions: Michael Sadler
- Samuel Gompers
- Emile Zola
- Upton Sinclair
- Jane Addams
- William G. Shepherd
- Camella Teoli
- Ch. 4. Politics and law: Progressive party documents.