David S. Landes, The Unbound Prometheus: technological change and industrial development in Western Europe from 1750 to the present (Cambridge at the University Press, 1969), pp. ix + 566: 70s. (paper 25s.)

1970 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. G. Kenwood
Keyword(s):  
Technological Change ◽  
Industrial Development ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
The University

The Unbound Prometheus: Technological Change and Industrial Development in Western Europe from 1750 to the Present.

Economica ◽  
1970 ◽  
Vol 37 (146) ◽  
pp. 200
Author(s):  
Malcolm Falkus ◽  
D. S. Landes ◽  
S. B. Clough ◽  
T. Moodie ◽  
C. Moodie
Keyword(s):  
Technological Change ◽  
Industrial Development ◽  
Western Europe

Family Structure and Proto-industrialization in Russia

1980 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard L. Rudolph
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Development ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Good Deal ◽  
Household Structure ◽  
Marriage Pattern ◽  
The West ◽  
Unfree Labor ◽  
Family And Household ◽  
Major Factors ◽  
Previous Existence

The experience of Russia is examined to establish whether the area underwent a process of proto-industrialization comparable to that found in Western Europe. It is argued that the process did take place in this region, even with unfree labor, and served as the basis for much later industrial development. It is also argued that the Russian case differed a good deal from that found in the West. The major factors operating to make the pattern different include the previous existence of the “non- European” marriage pattern, marked differences in family and household structure, the relative immobility of labor, and the degree to which there were half-peasant, half-manufacturing households that dominated much of manufacture.

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