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

This chapter addresses the question of how we should study men in gender
relations, and what view of modern world history an understanding of masculinity
might give us. I start with the reasons why ‘masculinity’ has recently become a
cultural and intellectual problem, and suggest a framework in which the intellectual work can be better done. The historicity of ‘masculinity’ is best shown by
cross-cultural evidence on the differing gender practices of men in different social
orders. The core of the chapter is a sketch of the historical evolution of the forms
of masculinity now globally dominant. This shows their imbrication with the military, social, and economic history of North Atlantic capitalist states, and especially
with imperialism. This history provides the necessary basis for an understanding of
the major institutionalized forms of masculinity in contemporary ‘first world’
countries, and the struggles for hegemony among them. I conclude with a brief
look at the dynamics of marginalized and subordinated masculinities.

The big picture: masculinities in recent world history

The Industrious Revolution: List of Figures

1. The transformation of consumer desire in the long eighteenth century 2. The origins of the Industrious Revolution 3. The Industrious Revolution: the supply of labor 4. The Industrious Revolution: consumer demand 5. The breadwinner-homemaker household 6. A second Industrious Revolution? Appendix I.

The industrious revolution: consumer behavior and the household economy, 1650 to the present

(1986). Patriarchy stabilized: The construction of the male breadwinner wage norm in nineteenth‐century Britain. Social History: Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 53-76.

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