Gainful pursuits: the making of industrial Europe 1600-1914

Industrial Europe in 1600

Population, agriculture and urbanization

Europe and the integration of the world economy

Organizations of production and business

Technology and knowledge

Labour, skill and gender division of labour

The textile industry

The development of consumer durables

Shipbuilding in Europe

The basic industries : iron, steel and chemicals

Power in European industry, 1600-1914

The process of industrialization

The problems of industrial Europe and the international economy before 1914.