Download or read book Early Debates about Industry written by F. Schui and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-11-07 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Industry has been at the centre of some of the most formidable political and economic debates of the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This book explores the pivotal decades of the eighteenth-century in which the modern concept of industry was, for the first time, at the heart of heated debates in France and other European countries. The close reading of contemporary debates illuminates the origins of an economic key concept and suggests a fresh perspective on the rise of industry in the eighteenth-century.