The Industrial Revolution as a historical concept has many shortcomings. A new concept—the “industrious revolution”—is proposed to place the Industrial Revolution in a broader historical setting. The industrious revolution was a process of household-based resource reallocation that increased both the supply of marketed commodities and labor and the demand for market-supplied goods. The industrious revolution was a household-level change with important demand-side features that preceded the Industrial Revolution, a supply-side phenomenon. It has implications for nineteenth- and twentieth-century economic history.

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The Industrial Revolution and the Industrious Revolution

The Industrious Revolution by Jan de Vries

Deagrarianization and Rural Employment in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Sectoral Perspective

The Industrious Revolution: List of Figures

Although the great majority of UK farms are run as family businesses, the family dimension of these businesses is frequently neglected. There are nevertheless important inferences to be drawn from studying the farm family, its forms and functions, and the way that the family and the business interact. This calls for a multidisciplinary approach and the review attempts to draw together insights from industrial economics, social anthropology, history and rural sociology as they apply to the farm family business. It then relates these insights to considerations of the family development cycle, processes of inheritance and succession, roles of farmers' wives and multiple-job farming families. The literature review points to opposing tendencies within the population of farm businesses. Family forms of organisation and relationships may have become less relevant to farming at the lower end of the size scale but more relevant to the conduct of a successful large farm business.

The farm as a family business: a review

(1976). The pro to‐industrial family economy: The structural function of household and family during the transition from peasant society to industrial capitalism. Social History: Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 291-315.

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The pro to‐industrial family economy: The structural function of household and family during the transition from peasant society to industrial capitalism 1

Die Geschichte der Grenzen und Grenzziehungen ist als Thema aktuell, sie hat in der Geschichtswissenschaft bisher aber wenig Aufmerksamkeit gefunden.

Grenzziehungen und die Herstellung des politischsozialen Raumes Zur Begriffsgeschichte und politischen Sozialgeschichte der Grenzen in der Frühen Neuzeit

Hans Medick

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The pro to‐industrial family economy: The structural function of household and family during the transition from peasant society to industrial capitalism 1

Grenzziehungen und die Herstellung des politischsozialen Raumes Zur Begriffsgeschichte und politischen Sozialgeschichte der Grenzen in der Frühen Neuzeit