In this admirably short and graceful book, Klaus Schwab takes us on a breathless tour of a technological, economic, and social revolution. The first industrial revolution moved us from muscle to ...

The shift from hand tools to machines, rural farms to booming cities—this is the beginning of the Industrial Revolution and how it reshaped the world.

Koehn, N. F. "Josiah Wedgwood and the First Industrial Revolution." In Creating Modern Capitalism: How Entrepreneurs, Companies, and Countries Triumphed in Three Industrial Revolutions, edited by ...

$35 (hardcover). Joel Mokyr’s A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern Economy gives culture center stage in the rapid economic growth and industrialization brought about by the first Industrial ...

Koehn, Nancy F. "Josiah Wedgwood and the First Industrial Revolution TN." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 796-157, April 1996. (Revised January 1998.) ...