Industrialization in the Modern World: From the Industrial Revolution to the Internet [2 volumes]

This unique two-volume work analyzes the Industrial Revolution from a global perspective and traces its influences up to the present day—encouraging students to rethink the significance of events past and present. By taking a fresh approach to its topic, Industrialization in the Modern World: From the Industrial Revolution to the Internet enables students to see this ongoing phenomenon not as a standalone event, but as a catalyst for the formation of today's globalized, industrializing world. Spanning the period from 1750 to the present, the work offers some 450 entries that cover developments in Africa and Asia, as well as in Europe and the United States. Numerous essays are organized around specific questions or problems; others examine significant events, countries, or industries. The work deals with all the major aspects of traditional industrialization (textiles, coal, steel), as well as modern variations (China, computers, the Internet). With a targeted approach, the authors will help students see how industrialization in one society influenced another, how industrialization spread throughout the world, and the causes and effects of each country's individual "revolution."

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments Introduction: The Ongoing Revolution of Industrialization Chronology Volume 1 Abolitionism Accidents Advertising Aeronautics Africa Agriculture Air-Conditioning Ali, Muhammed Alienation Alternating Current (AC) Amalgamated Society of Engineers (ASE) American (U.S.) Civil War (1861–65) American Federation of Labor (AFL) Apple Argentina Aristocracy Arkwright, Richard Armour, Philip Danforth Artificial Intelligence (AI) Artificial Silk Company (Russia) Artisans Assembly Line Australia Automation Automobile Back Office Bank of England Banking, Investment Banking System Behavioral Economics Belgium Bell, Alexander Graham Bell Laboratories Bessemer, Henry Biotechnology Black Workers Boren (All-Japan Cotton-Spinners Trade Association) Boring Engines Boulton, Matthew Bourses du Travail Boycott Brazil Bread Riots Bretton Woods Agreement Brewing and Distilling BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China) Britain Bubbles Bülow Tariff (1902) Bureaucracy Business Cycles Calico Act (1721) Canada Canadian Pacific Railway Canals Canning Capitalism Carnegie, Andrew Cartels Causes of the Industrial Revolution Cell Phones Central Union of German Industrialists Charity Chartism Chemical Industry Child Labor China China Mobile Communications Chinese Communist Party Classical Economics Clothing Coal Miners Cockerill, William Cold War Combination Acts Communism Company Union Comprador Computerization Computers Confédération Générale du Travail (CGT) Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) Construction Industry Consumerism and Mass Consumption Containerization Cooperatives Corn Laws Corporations Corporatism Cotton Cotton Gin Cranes Crompton, Samuel Crystal Palace Exhibition (1851) Cunard Steamship Company Daewoo Decolonization Deindustrialization Demographic Transition Deng Xiaoping Department Stores Developing Countries Development Theory Diesel, Rudolf Discipline Division of Labor Dockers Domestic Manufacturing Dongfeng Motors Drinking Du Pont de Nemours Dual Labor Markets East Central Europe Edison, Thomas A. Education and Literacy Edwards, Persis Electricity Electronic Waste or E-waste Electronics Emancipation and Reconstruction (United States) Emancipation of the Serfs (Russia) (1861) Enclosure Movement Energy Engineering Entrepreneurial Spirit Entrepreneurs, Origins of Environment Erie Canal Ethnicity European Union (EU) Exploitation Exports Factories in the Field (McWilliams) Factory Acts Fascism Feminism Feudalism and Manorialism Finance Capital Five-Year Plans Flying Shuttle Ford, Henry Ford Motor Company Fordism Foreign Trade Foremen France Franchise Free Economic Society French Revolution (1789–93) Frontier Settlement Fulton, Robert General Commission of Free Trade Unions (Germany) General Electric (GE) General Motors (GM) German General Workingmen's Association Germany Gilchrist-Thomas Glassmaking Global Warming Globalization and the Industrial Revolution Gold Standard Gompers, Samuel Goodyear, Charles Gould, Jay Great Depression (1930s) Great Leap Forward Great Migration Great Strike of 1877 Green Revolution Green Technology Group of Eight (G8) Group of Twenty (G20) Hammer, Armand Hargreaves, James Holding Company Holy Monday Homestead Lockout (1892) Honda Motor Company Hours of Work Housework Hydroelectric Power Hyundai Immigration and Migration Imperialism Import Substitution India Industrial Unions Industrial Workers Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) Inflation and Deflation Infrastructure Instrumentalism Interchangeable Parts Internal Combustion Engine International Business Machines (IBM) International Monetary Fund (IMF) Internationals Internet Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) Interventionist Government Inventions Iran Iron and Steel Corporation of South Africa (Iscor) Iron and Steel Industry Islam and Industrialization Israel Italy Jacquard, Joseph Japan Japanese System of Employment Joint Stock Companies Kaiping Mines Kaiser, Henry Kawasaki Shipyard Keynesianism Knights of Labor Krupp Kulaks Kyoto Protocol Labor Turnover Labour Party (British) Laissez-faire Latecomer Industrialization Latin America Lawrence, Abbott Le Chapelier Law (1791) Lee Kuan Yew Lenin, Vladimir Il'ich Liberalism Light Industry Linen Long Waves of Capitalism Luddites Machine Building Malthus, Reverend Thomas Robert Managers Mao Zedong Maquiladoras Marconi, Guglielmo Markets Marshall Plan Marx, Karl Marxism Masculinity Mass Marketing Mass Media McCormick, Cyrus Meatpacking Mechanization Meiji Restoration Mellon, Andrew Mercantilism Merchant Capital Merchants Mergers Mexico Middle Class Middle East Military-Industrial Complex Miners' National Union Minimata Disease Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) Mitsubishi Mittal, Lakshmi Modernization Theory Money Monopoly Capitalism Moral Economy Morgan, John Pierpont, Sr. Morse, Samuel F.?B. Multinational Corporations (MNCs) Nanotechnology National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) National Miners Union Nationalism Nationalization Nehru, Jawaharlal Neocolonialism Neoliberalism, or Economic Liberalism Neurasthenia New Deal New Economic Policy (NEP) Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs) Oil Open Hearth Outsourcing Owen, Robert Pacific Rim Panama Canal Park Chung Hee Patents Paternalism Peasantry Perestroika Perónism Personal Computer Petrobras Pharmaceuticals Piece Rate Pink-Collar Workers Pinkertons Pipelines Plantations Plastics Poland Police Regulation Law Poor Law (1601) Population Growth Populism Postindustrial Economies Potato Primitive Accumulation Private Property Privatization Productivity Professionalization Professionals Profit Protectionism Proto-industrialization Puddlers Pullman, George M. VOLUME 2 Racism Railroads Refrigeration Religion Renewable Energy Research and Development (R&D) Research Laboratories Restriction of Output Retirement Revolutions of 1848 Rhee, Syngman Robotics Rockefeller, John D. Rubber Ruling Class Russia and the Soviet Union (USSR) Russian Revolution (1917) Saint-Simon, Claude H. Samsung Science Scientific Management "Second" Industrial Revolution Self-Help Literature Semiskilled Workers Serfs Sewing Machine Sexuality Sharecropping Sherman Antitrust Act (1890) Shibusawa, Eiichi Shipping Siemens Silk Sinopec Slater, Samuel Slavery Sloan, Alfred P. Smith, Adam Smoot-Hawley Tariff (1930) Social Darwinism Social Insurance Socialism Sony South Africa South Korea Spain Sports Springfield Armory Stakhanovites Stalinism Standard of Living State, Role of the Statute of Apprentices (1563) Steam Engine Steamboat Stephenson, George Strikes Sub-Saharan Africa Subsidies Suez Canal Sugar Surplus Value Sustainable Development Syndicalism Synthetic Fabrics Taiwan Takeoff Tata, Jamshed Taxation Taylor, Frederick Winslow Technocracy Technology Telecommunications Telegraph Telephone Temperance Textiles Third World Time Time-and-Motion Studies Toyota Tractors Trusts Turkey Underclass Unemployment United Mine Workers (UMW) United States United States Steel University Urbanization U.S. South Utopian Socialists Vanderbilt, Cornelius Wage Labor Wagner Act (1935) Walmart War Water Power Watt, James Wedgwood, Josiah Welfare State Wendel Western Culture Westinghouse, George White-Collar Workers Whitney, Eli Wilkinson, John Witte, Sergei (Count) Women Women Industrial Workers Wool Work Work Ethic Workers' Control Working Class World Bank World Systems Theory World War I (1914–18) World War II (1939–45) Zaibatsus Zollverein Primary Documents I. Perspectives on the Political Economy of Industrialization 1. Adam Smith, An Enquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776) 2. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848) 3. The German Social Democratic Party, The Gotha Program (1875) 4. Thorstein Veblen, Theory of the Leisure Class (1899) 5. Ito Hirobumi, The Growth of Japan (1904) 6. Max Weber, The Spirit of Capitalism (1905) 7. William Graham Sumner, The Challenge of Facts (1915) 8. Vladimir Il'ich Lenin, "Report on the Work of the Council of People's Commissars" (December 22, 1920) 9. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, "Acceptance Speech to the Democratic National Convention" (June 27, 1936) 10. German Social Democratic Party, Basic Demands for a Society Worthy of Man (Gotesberg Program) (November 1959) 11. Dwight D. Eisenhower, "Military-Industrial Complex Speech" (1961) 12. Ronald Reagan, "A Time for Choosing" (October 27, 1964) 13. Lyndon B. Johnson, Commencement Address at Howard University: "To Fulfill These Rights" (June 4, 1965) 14. Margaret Thatcher, "There Is No Such Thing as Society" (September 23, 1987) 15. William Jefferson Clinton, "Signing the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) Side Agreements" (September 14, 1993) 16. Barack Hussein Obama, "Economic Populism" (December 6, 2011) II. Perspectives on the Industrial Workplace 1. William Blake, "Jerusalem" (1804) 2. Sadler Committee, "British Inquiry into Child Labor" (1831–32) 3. Thomas Hood, "The Song of the Shirt" (1843) 4. Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (1845) 5. Upton Sinclair, The Jungle (1906) 6. Wall Street Journal, "An Experiment, with Consequences" (January 7, 1914) 7. Ernest Poole, "The Stokers" (1915) 8. John A. Fitch, "Horse and Wagon" (1919) 9. Andrew Carnegie, "Mills and the Men" (1920) 10. Henry Ford, My Life and Work (1922) 11. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, "Plant's Death Was Long Expected" (July 15, 1997) III. Effects of Industrialization 1. Hillaire Belloc and Basil Temple Blackwood, The Modern Traveller (1898) 2. Mary Mortimer Maxwell, "An Englishwoman on American Wives" (January 3, 1909) 3. New York Times, "Farm Woman Works Eleven Hours a Day" (July 6, 1910) 4. New York Times, "American Cars Making Headway" (July 24, 1910) 5. Mary Beard, "Inventions Are for Men: They Have All the Money to Buy the Labor-Saving Devices" (August 17, 1915) 6. Chico Mendes, Fight for the Forest (1992) 7. George W. Bush, "The Kyoto Accord and Global Climate Change" (June 11, 2001) 8. Dean Baker, "Free Trade Arithmetic for Progressives" (November 23, 2006) 9. Al Gore, "The Challenge of Climate Change" (2007) 10. James Inhofe, "Global Warming Alarmists" (2007) 11. Mark Weisbrot, "Time to Take a Second Look at Our 'Free Trade' Agreements" (September 18, 2008) 12. Barack Hussein Obama, "Speech to the United Nations on Climate Change" (September 23, 2009) 13. Verena Dobnik, "Korean Teens Win $100,000 World Texting Championship" (January 14, 2010) 14. International Labour Organization, "The ILO Battles Child Labor" (May 10, 2011) 15. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), "Fact Sheet on Carbon Pollution" (2012) IV. Politics of Business and Labor in the West 1. John Newton, Amazing Grace (1779) 2. John Newton, Thoughts on the African Slave Trade (1788) 3. Alexander Hamilton, Report on Manufactures (1791) 4. Thomas Malthus, Essay on the Principle of Population (1798) 5. Combination Acts of Great Britain (1799, 1800) 6. Luddite Writings (Great Britain) (1812) 7. David Ricardo, "On Free Trade" (1817) 8. Sadler Committee, "Report to British Parliament on Working Conditions in Textile Mills" (1833) 9. The Chartists' First Petition to the British Parliament (1838) 10. Friedrich List, "The Commercial Policy of the German Zollverein" (1841) 11. Sir Robert Peel, "Speech to the British House of Commons Supporting Repeal of the Corn Laws" (1846) 12. Ebenezer Elliot, "The People's Anthem" (1850) 13. Czar Alexander II, "Decree Emancipating the Serfs" (1861) 14. Samuel Smiles, Industrial Biography: Iron Workers and Tool Makers (1863) 15. International Workingmen's Association, "Address to Abraham Lincoln" (1864) 16. Prince Otto von Bismarck, "Social Welfare" (1880s) 17. Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward (1887) 18. Samuel Gompers, "On the Principles of the American Federation of Labor" (1903, 1914, 1920) 19. Rose Schneiderman, "I Would Be a Traitor" (1911) 20. Rose Schneiderman/James Oppenheim, "Bread and Roses" (1912) 21. Frederik van Eeden, "The Great Strike" (1912) 22. Louis D. Brandeis, Other People's Money and How the Bankers Use It (1914) 23. James Jackson, "Slave Narrative" (1938) V. Latecomers to Industrialization 1. Karl Marx, "Primitive Accumulation" (1867) 2. Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness (1899) 3. W.?E. Burghardt Du Bois, "The African Roots of War" (1915) 4. Joseph Stalin and H.?G. Wells, "Marxism vs. Liberalism" (1937) 5. Nikita Khrushchev, "Speech to the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union" (February 24–25, 1956) 6. Vaclav Havel, "The Power of the Powerless" (1978) 7. Taiichi Ohno, "Origins of Lean Production" (July 16, 1984) 8. Vremya (Time), "There Has Been an Accident" (April 28, 1986, 9:02 p.m.) 9. Narsis Melikian, Workers of the Donbass Speak: Survival and Identity in the New Ukraine, 1989–1992 (1995) 10. Martha A. Ojeda, "Justice in the Maquiladoras" (June 2, 1999) 11. Korea Times, "Cell Phone Paradise" (March 2, 2000) 12. Bob Williams, "Brazil's Learning Curve" (September 11, 2000) 13. This Day (Nigeria), "African Union and Challenges of Development" (January 3, 2002) 14. China Daily, "Educating China's 'Little Emperors'?" (November 5, 2003) 15. China Labour Bulletin, "The Case of Ms. Zhang: Peregrinations of a Young Migrant Worker" (2006) 16. Tschang Chi-Chu, "China's Middle Class" (June 1, 2006) 17. BuaNews, "Cell Phone Banking on the Rise" (November 22, 2007) 18. Vanguard (Nigeria), "Why We Are Campaigning for Re-Industrialization of Labour" (April 24, 2009) 19. Sim Chi Yin, "Solar City" (December 5, 2009) 20. Subodh Varma, "The Great Indian Technolution" (January 23, 2010) 21. Richard Meeran and Zanele Mbuyisa, "Court Battle for Sick Miners" (November 21, 2010) 22. Chinadaily.com.cn. "US, Chinese Firms to Build World's Largest Solar Plant" (January 6, 2011) 23. Kim Rahn, "Cell Phone? Enemy No. 1 in Classrooms" (January 26, 2011) 24. Debby Chan Sze Wan, "The Workers behind the iPhones" (May 11, 2011) Bibliography Index

About the Author :
John Hinshaw, PhD, is professor of history at Lebanon Valley College in Annville, PA. Peter N. Stearns, PhD, is provost and executive vice president at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA.

Review :
Overall, the content is very reliable. Industrialism in the Modern World is a set that encompasses a great variety of thinkers and presents students and a general audience with a solid introduction to issues that continue to shape the global markets and local communities. Highly recommended for most public and academic libraries. I would recommend this historical encyclopedia to public and academic collections for social history and business collections.