Contents : 1. Industries. -- 2. Political economy and the growth of manufacture. -- 3. Models of manufacture: prrimitive accumulation or proto-industrialization? -- 4. Agricultural origins of industry. -- 5. Industrial decline. -- 6. Domestic manufacture and women's work. -- 7. Custom and community in domestic manufacture and the trades. -- 8. The economic history of technological diffusion. -- 9. The textile industries: organizing work. -- 10. The textile industries: technologies. -- 11. The metal and hardware trades. -- 12. The Birmingham toy trades