The Industrial Revolution required pre-existing commercial, legal, and labor institutions

Evidence

This suggests that to comprehend the scale on which this “revolution” operated requires a sense that it involved more than the introduction of new techniques of production. The recruitment, training, and disciplining of labor, the transportation of goods and raw materials, the political and legal structures of regulation and trade, the physical and commercial apparatus of markets, the organization and instrumentation of communication, the techniques of banking and finance, these too would have already had to be of a character that could accommodate increased commodity production. Their appearance was hardly instantaneous. On the contrary, their formation was organically determined by the economic developments of previous centuries. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 218

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: American territorial expansion, slavery, and cotton drove the Industrial Revolution symbiotically — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 199; Common-law doctrine’s pre-industrial concepts need reformulation for the industrial corporation. — Henry M. Hart, Jr. and Albert M. Sacks, The Legal Process: Basic Problems in…, 2325; Interstate commerce created pressure for uniform commercial laws — Lawrence M. Friedman and Grant M. Hayden, American Law: An Introduction, 460