The Industrial Revolution and the Industrious Revolution

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Abstract

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. © 1994, The Economic History Association. All rights reserved.

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De Vries, J. (1994). The Industrial Revolution and the Industrious Revolution. The Journal of Economic History, 54(2), 249–270. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022050700014467

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