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Industrialization

**Industrialization** is a historical process of economic and social transformation in which an economy shifts from predominantly agrarian and handicraft production to large-scale, mechanized, factory-based manufacturing, accompanied by structural changes in technology, labor organization, spatial patterns of activity, and the composition of output and employment.

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The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business

Elisha P. Douglass, Alfred D. Chandler · The American Historical Review · 1978 · 4.6K citations

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The Second Industrial Divide: Possibilities for Prosperity

William H. Becker, Michael J. Piore, Charles F. Sabel · Journal of American History · 1987 · 4.4K citations

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Asia's Next Giant: South Korea and Late Industrialization

William Diebold, Alice H. Amsden · Foreign Affairs · 1990 · 3.9K citations

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Culture shift in advanced industrial society

Choice Reviews Online · 1990 · 3.8K citations

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Catching Up, Forging Ahead, and Falling Behind

Moses Abramovitz · The Journal of Economic History · 1986 · 3.5K citations

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  1. JM
    Joel Mokyr

    Northwestern University, United States

    34 publications · 3.7K citations

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  2. SP
    Sidney Pollard

    University of Sheffield, United Kingdom

    31 publications · 1.7K citations

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  3. AD
    Alfred D. Chandler

    Harvard University, United States

    26 publications · 15.3K citations

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  4. NC
    Nicholas Crafts

    University of Warwick, United Kingdom

    26 publications · 1.5K citations

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  5. JG
    Jeffrey G. Williamson

    Harvard University, United States

    28 publications · 1.8K citations

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  1. National Bureau of Economic Research

    Cambridge, United States

    43 h-index

    131 publications

    16.3K citations

  2. University of Oxford

    Oxford, United Kingdom

    42 h-index

    101 publications

    7.6K citations

  3. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    38 h-index

    82 publications

    7.7K citations

  4. University of Sussex

    Brighton, United Kingdom

    38 h-index

    84 publications

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  5. London School of Economics and Political Science

    London, United Kingdom

    37 h-index

    80 publications

    8K citations

  6. University of Cambridge

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    34 h-index

    79 publications

    6.3K citations

  7. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Cambridge, United States

    33 h-index

    65 publications

    10.7K citations

  8. Harvard University

    Cambridge, United States

    32 h-index

    68 publications

    9.4K citations

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  1. Choice Reviews Online

    CRO · 450 publications · 43.7K citations

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  2. The American Historical Review

    AHR · 376 publications · 32.1K citations

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  3. The Economic History Review

    537 publications · 24.4K citations

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  4. The Economic Journal

    175 publications · 18.6K citations

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  5. The Journal of Economic History

    196 publications · 17.4K citations

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