Social position on the history of the industrial revolution
Two recent conspectuses by economic historians of writings on the causes of the Industrial Revolution, see Hartwell, RM 'The Causes of the Industrial Revolution: an Essay in Methodology', Econ. History Rev. 2nd series, xviii 1965, Google Scholar, and Flinn, M. W. Origins of the Industrial Revolution 1966. Google, The Industrial Revolution witnessed a tremendous growth in the size of British cities. the population in Britain was estimated at. the year of the first census, it. And. 9 million. This represents the growth rate in years. Unions struggled to achieve freedom of existence.