Agriculture and industrialization

Abstract

Highlights the importance of agriculture in the process of economic change and industrialisation, discussing two main areas, the intrinsic history of agricultural change, and the relationships of agricultural developments and their interactions with wider processes of economic change. The former includes enclosures, agricultural innovations, the importance of the Board of Agriculture, and rural protests, while the latter considers labour supply, capital, food supply, agricultural price, and internal demand. -P.Hardiman