+ − Am Econ R 10:572 S ’20 1050w
“The facts are presented with scholarly care, but the style is not too technical.”
+ Booklist 16:224 Ap ’20 + Boston Transcript p6 Jl 31 ’20 490w
“Marked by scholarliness and originality.”
+ Cleveland p90 O ’20 10w
“English industrialism, is, primarily, a consequence of certain philosophic ideas, but the author fails to comprehend this major fact, not from any lack of knowledge of the complexities of economic organization, but rather, one surmises because such intricacies are too much for him. He has not seen the wood for the trees, and he fears generalizations—except the one implied throughout the book, that there are no generalizations possible.” R. W.
− + Freeman 2:141 O 20 ’20 980w
“The book shows throughout the discriminatory use of the latest available results of research and much painstaking original work. The controversial treatment, the careful qualification in discussion, as well as occasional heaviness in style, make the book unsuited for an undergraduate text.”
+ − J Pol Econ 28:520 Je ’20 500w + − New Repub 23:341 Ag 18 ’20 1650w
“It is encyclopædic in its character and is much more full in dealing with the mechanical aspects and the mechanical development of industry than with the history of the men, women, and children who have been engaged in the industries of England. In this respect it is a disappointing book.”