Robert Allen ha publicado su artículo The High wage Economy and the Industrial Revolution: A Restatement, en cuyo resumen leemos "This article responds to Professor Jane Humphries' critique of my
assessment of the high wage economy of eighteenth century Britain and its
importance for explaining the Industrial Revolution. New Evidence is presented
to show that women and children participated in the high wage economy. It is
also shown that the high wage economy provides a good explanation of why the
Industrial Revolution happened in the eighteenth century by showing that
increases of women's wages around 1700 greatly increased the profitability of
using spinning machinery. The relationship between the high wage economy of the
eighteenth century and the inequality and poverty in Britain in the nineteenth
century is explored
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Ver además: Allen, Robert [2006], The British IndustrialRevolution in Global Perspective. How Commerce Created The IndustrialRevolution and Modern Economic Growth, Artículo no publicado, Nuffield College, Oxford
University
