TY - BOOK AU - Griffin,Emma TI - A short history of the British industrial revolution SN - 0230579256 AV - HC255 .G84 2010 U1 - 330.941081 22 PY - 2010/// CY - Basingstoke, Hampshire, New York PB - Palgrave Macmillan KW - Industrial revolution KW - Great Britain KW - Social conditions KW - 19th century KW - Economic conditions N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 162-190) and index; Counting growth: measuring the economy -- A growing population -- A mobile population -- World of work -- The 'mechanical age': technology, innovation and industrialisation -- Coal: the key to the British industrial revolution? -- Why was Britain first?: the global context for industrialisation -- Winners and losers: living through the industrial revolution ER -