Industrial Organization in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Unwin charts and explains the course of industrial transformation that occurred in England during the 16th and 17th centuries. The volume treats topics such as business organization and the rise of the corporation, the accumulation of productive capital and its control by a small number of entrepreneurs as well as the rise of modern finance and trade unions. But Unwin goes beyond a mere history industrial organisation, tracing the evolution of modern industrial classes and demonstrating that the emergence of distinct social classes in their modern form was closely associated with the division of labor. The result is an all-time economic history classic and required reading for students of economic history. This New Edition has been typeset with modern techniques and contains a newly compiled Index of important topics. It has been painstakingly proofread to ensure that it is free from errors and that the content is faithful to the original.