1. Introduction
Data on real wages, gdp p.c. (outcomes)
Data on structural change (cause/mechanism)
More detailed indicators of specialisation
More indicators of living standards (consequences)
European comparisons
2. Causes of industrialisation: demand
Poverty, inequality
Market integration - transport infrastructure, internal customs ...
Consumer culture, the industrious revolution
Foreign trade
Empire
Mercantilism - navigation acts, tariffs
Fiscal-military state
War, revolution disruption?
Urbanisation and induced agrarian change?
3. Causes of industrialisation: supply
Invention
Patents
Enlightenment
Factor prices
Entrepreneurship / culture
Institutions
Property rights
Guilds
Financial revolution
Limited government
Enclosure
Trade/empire
Inputs of cheap food, raw materials like cotton
Profits of colonial trade, slavery, influence of merchants on gov't.
Infrastructure investment
War, revolution disruption ?
Markets - credit, labour, products / integration, competition
4. Consequences of industrialisation
Standards of living - heights, health, mortality, consumption, real wages
Demography
Poverty
Poor relief
Child labour
Urbanisation