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A Double-Edged Blade
Two Mechanics, Wyndham Lewis, 1912.
Nowadays when one in every three or four adults is a member of a trade union, and when all of us are likely to be affected by the decisions of a union’s leaders, there is no need to emphasise the impor...
Supplemental: A Double-Edged Blade
Industrial relations and technical change: the case of the self-acting mule, William Lazonick, 1979.
Pelling’s A History of British Trade Unionism is a bit of a detour from the history of technology readings I have been looking at recently...
The Inheritance of Rome
The great medieval historian Chris Wickham passed away yesterday. To an extent, it feels like an irreplaceable loss—there are few historians alive who can rival the breadth and depth of knowledge Wickham deployed, and it strikes me as unlik...
Frost and Sunshine
Charles Demuth, Machinery, 1920.
How does a country fall behind, technologically? Why might an economy, hitherto dominating the frontier in multiple sectors, end up outpaced by new rivals within the space of decades? Is it psychological—a...
Supplemental: Frost and Sunshine
After the Great Inventions: Technological Change in UK Cotton Spinning, 1780-1835, Maw et al, 2022.
Perhaps the major weakness of Habakkuk’s American and British Technology is a lack of quantitative evidence. This is not so much Habakkuk's...
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Writing about books about economic history, mostly. Predoc @ LSE Econ
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