This 1959 book surveys the changes in the social origins and career patterns of the leaders of two British industries during the previous century.

Why did the industrial revolution take place in 18th century Britain and not elsewhere in Europe or Asia? Robert Allen argues that the British industrial revolu

This book examines disability and disabled people in British coalmining, an industry with high levels of injury and disease and where, as one outsider noted, st

This “sobering tale of the real consequences of gender bias” explores how Britain lost its early dominance in computing by systematically discriminating aga

A concise 1995 review of the strengths and weaknesses of the British motor industry during the one hundred years since its foundation.