Mrs. Gaskell as she was popularly known, had a hard and lonely childhood, spent with various aunts and relatives after her mother died and her father...
Hard Times: For These Times (commonly known as Hard Times) is the tenth novel by Charles Dickens, first published in 1854. The book surveys English so...
Charles Beard was the most influential American historian of the early 20th century. He published hundreds of monographs, textbooks and interpretive s...
Principles of Economics was a leading economics textbook of Alfred Marshall (1842-1924), first published in 1890. Marshall began writing the book in 1...
The county of Lancashire in the north-west of England is best known as the engine room of the nineteenth-century Industrial Revolution. Steering clear...
The Servile State is a 1912 book authored by Hilaire Belloc. The book is primarily a history of capitalism in Europe, and a repudiation of the converg...
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn was a leading American socialist and feminist. Her book "Sabotage, the conscious withdrawal of the workers' industrial efficien...
In this volume are presented examples of men who shed lustre upon ordinary pursuits, either by the superior manner in which they exercised them or by...
As a young man, Stevenson wished to be financially independent and began his literary career by writing travelogues. This is his first published work,...
A collection of inspiring writings and speeches by Eugen Debs, Socialist and American Original. Ran for President from jail in 1920 during the red sca...
Both U.S. and U.K. newspapers are represented here. The articles span from 1848 to 1920. Topics covered (e.g., the Triangle Shirt Waist Factory Fire,...
This address was delivered shortly after Mr. Darrow's triumphant acquittal on a charge growing out of his defense of the McNamaras at Los Angeles, Cal...
From the velocipede to the motor cycle in twenty chapters. A short history of the British bicycle industry from its origins in a Coventry sewing machi...
In the Days of the Comet is a science fiction novel by H. G. Wells in which humanity is "exalted" when a comet causes "the nitrogen of the air, the ol...
Subtitled "Fifty Years' March of the Republic," this is steel tycoon Andrew Carnegie's love letter to America, first published in 1886, an impassioned...
Samuel H. Church presents a brief history of the city of Pittsburgh, split into three domains: historical, industrial, and intellectual. His goal is t...
When a titan of industry is found dead in his locked bedroom without evidence of natural death. The doctors and the police are trying to figure out wh...
It is a thought-provoking exploration of the historical phenomenon that transformed the world in the 18th and 19th centuries. Written by one of the mo...
It explores the lives of the lower class in the early 20th century. Set in a small town in Ohio, the book follows the story of Hugh McVey, a young man...
It follows the thrilling exploits of the eponymous Tom Swift as he builds and tests his latest invention - a powerful motor-boat.
Originally publishe...
In this, Casson examines advertising and selling from a scientific management perspective, which was a new approach at the time. He looks at how adver...
In this, Norman Thomas explores the concept of industrial democracy and its potential to transform the way we view and experience work.
"What is Indu...
In the heart of the bustling industrial age, a captivating tale of ingenuity and innovation unfolds in "The Romance of Modern Manufacture" by Charles...
Iron is the soul of civilization.
In his book Industrial Biography: Iron Workers and Tool Makers, Samuel Smiles tells the stories of the people who h...
