A Comparative History of Commerce and Industry, Volume I offers a subjective review of how the cultural, social and economic institutions of commerce and industry evolved in industrialized nations to produce the institution we now know as business enterprise

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- I. Wages from 1860 to I945 -- II. Labor Productivity -- III. Real Wages and the Standard of Living -- IV. Through Two World Wars -- V. Wage Differentials -- VI. Regional Differences -- VII. The Role of Trade Unionism -- VIII. Conclusion --...

Intro -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Divergence, Convergence, and the French Path to Industrial Development after 1750 -- 2 A Brave New World of Work: The Reform of the Corporations and the Lettres-Patentes of May 1779 -- 3 Foreign Policy as Industrial Policy: The Anglo-French Commercial Treaty of 1786...