Rethinking the Industrial Revolution: Five Centuries of Transition from Agrarian to Industrial Capitalism in : Historical Materialism, Volume 49 (Historical Materialism)

In Rethinking the Industrial Revolution, Michael Andrew Zmolek offers the first in-depth study of the evolution of English manufacturing from the feudal and early modern periods within the context of the development of agrarian capitalism. The work chronicles how a long train of struggles led by artisans resisting efforts by employers to transform production along capitalist lines, prompted employers to appeal to the state to suppress this resistance by coercion.