Continuity, Chance and Change

It explores the Industrial Revolution in terms of paradox and provides a distinct 'model' to study the changes.

The Industrial Revolution brought affluence, longevity and mobility, and a great surge of economic growth was balanced against severe constraints on the opportunities for expansion, revealing an intriguing paradox. This book explores the paradox and attempts to provide a distinct 'model' of the changes that comprise the Industrial Revolution.The Industrial Revolution brought into being a distinct world, a world of greater affluence, longevity and mobility, an urban rather than a rural world. But the great surge of economic growth was balanced against severe constraints on the opportunities for expansion, revealing an intriguing paradox. This book, published to considerable critical acclaim, explores the paradox and attempts to provide a distinct model' of the changes that comprised the industrial revolution.