Developing Consumerism and the Ready-Made Clothing Trade in Britain, 1750–1800

Lemire, Beverly

doi:10.1179/004049684793690443

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“…2011,2015). Interestingly, Allen and Weisdorf (2011) Mui, 1988;Hoh-Chueng and Lorna, 1989;de Vries, 1993;Lemire, 1984Lemire, , 1992Lemire, , 1997Clifford, 1999, Berry, 2002;Stobart and Hann, 2004;Berg, 2004Berg, , 2005Reis, 2005;Vickery, 2006;Styles, 2006Styles, , 2007McCants, 2007;Hersh and Voth, 2009), have often been advanced in the literature to account for the British economic success after 1750 (see e.g. Habakkuk, 1962;Wrigley, 1967;de Vries, 1984de Vries, , 1994de Vries, , 2008Voigtlander and Voth, 2006;Allen, 2009bAllen, , 2010Brunt and Garcia-Penalosa, 2012;Abramson and Boix, 2014).…”

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Why Did the Industrial Revolution Start in Britain?

Neuss

2015

SSRN Journal

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The main goal of this paper is to provide an integrated overview of the literature devoted to identifying the causes of the British industrial revolution. Why did the industrial revolution, a fascinating and multifaceted event which brought about modern economic growth, occur in eighteenth-century Britain? This question has animated a lot of discussions among scholars and is still nowadays heatedly debated in the literature. This debate is reflected in the large spectrum of theories which aim at explaining the true origins of the British industrialization. The paper first sheds light on a rising debate concerning the evolution of British incomes per capita before the British industrial revolution and the "Great Divergence". The paper then investigates the proposed causes of the British industrialization, aggregating them into seven broad categories, i.e. (1) geography and natural resources, (2) demography, (3) agricultural progress, (4) demand-side factors, (5) trade and empire, (6) institutional and political factors, (7) science, technology, and human capital.

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Why Did the Industrial Revolution Start in Britain?

Neuss

2015

SSRN Journal

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Labour of the Stitch

Dyer

2024

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The making of fashionable women's dress in Georgian England necessitated an inordinate amount of manual labour. From the mantuamakers and seamstresses who wrought lengths of silk and linen into garments, to the artists and engravers who disseminated and immortalised the resulting outfits in print and on paper, Georgian garments were the products of many busy hands. This Element centres the sartorial hand as a point of connection across the trades which generated fashionable dress in the eighteenth century. Crucially, it engages with recreation methodologies to explore how the agency and skill of the stitching hand can inform understandings of craft, industry, gender, and labour in the eighteenth century. The labour of stitching, along with printmaking, drawing, and painting, composed a comprehensive culture of making and manual labour which, together, constructed eighteenth-century cultures of fashionable dress.

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Inventive Activity in the British Textile Industry, 1700–1800

Griffiths

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O’Brien

1992

J. Eco. History

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An analysis of innovations in the eighteenth-century British textile industry is the basis for an evaluation of aggregate studies of invention during the Industrial Revolution, derived from patent evidence alone. Disaggregation of the data challenges recent generalizations concerning the pace and pattern of technical change over the period. Discontinuities in the nature of invention, promoting an acceleration in total factor productivity growth, are traced to the 1790s. Prior to that date, industrial development conformed to a pattern of Smithian growth, as manufacturers diversified their output in response to an expanding domestic market for consumer goods.

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Developing Consumerism and the Ready-Made Clothing Trade in Britain, 1750–1800

Cited by 11 publications

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Why Did the Industrial Revolution Start in Britain?

Why Did the Industrial Revolution Start in Britain?

Labour of the Stitch

Inventive Activity in the British Textile Industry, 1700–1800

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