Slavery, Atlantic trade and skills: a response to Mokyr s Holy Land of Industrialism

• Published in: Journal of the British Academy Vol. 9; pp. 259 - 281
• Main Authors: Berg, Maxine, Hudson, Pat
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2021

We challenge the idea that Britain s short-lived industrial primacy in the late 18th and early 19th centuries is explained by comparative advantage in high-level artisan skills possessed by an elite workforce. Skills were vital to the industrial revolution but the timing of change and its regional c...