The Industrial Revolution in Miniature: The Spinning Jenny in Britain, France, and India

By R. Allen. Journal Economic History, 2009

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Before and Beyond Divergence: The Politics of Economic Change in China and Europe (2011, background): “More recently Robert Allen (2007) has put forth the argument that relative prices played a fundamental role in the development of the key machines of the Industrial Revolution.”
The future of employment: How susceptible are jobs to computerisation? (2017, background): “…(Armstrong and Sotala, 2012).25 For this reason, we 22 For example, case study evidence suggests that mechanisation in eighteenth century cotton production initially only occurred in Britain because wage levels were much higher relative to prices of capital than in other countries (Allen, 2009b).”
The Wages of Women in England, 1260–1850 (2015, unknown): “Robert C. Allen’s “respectability” consumption basket provides a tool for capturing and valuing the goods commonly consumed by an average person during the pre-modern era (Allen 2009).”