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Tourists are today urged to visit the 'birthplace of the Industrial Revolution', packaged as part of 'a glorious heritage'. Half a century and more ago the picture was very different. Then the Industrial Revolution was commonly treated as having been a social catastrophe which had brought 'a new barbarism' to the country. Donald Coleman traces the history of the term 'Industrial Revolution' and the uses to which it has been put. Originating in European radical Romanticism, popularised in English by Arnold Toynbee in the 1 880s, it has achieved, with its meaning transformed, the status of poten

Discusses a strange paradox which lies at the heart of Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations. A book which has been notably influential, especially in English-speaking countries, in stimulating policies designed to give maximum freedom for private business enterprise, also exhibits a remarkable hostility to the agents of that enterprise. Suggests this paradox should not be ignored. (Abstract amended)