This title examines the impact the great industrial transformation of
18th-century Britain had on both the domestic and international scenes.
After considering the nature and significance of revolutions in
industry, power and transport, it goes on to consider the formation of
an industrial working class, the reform and self-help movements that
arose from it, and the struggle between reformism, the vested interests
of capital and the laissez-faire of government. It asks what the
Industrial Revolution really was, and questions who benefited from it.