Two good sources are
Gies, Frances Gies, Joseph (1994), Cathedral, Forge, and Waterwheel: 
Technology and Invention in the Middle Ages, (New York: HarperCollins)



Gimpel, Jean (1993), The Medieval Machine: The Industrial Revolution of the 
Middle Ages, (London: Plimlico)



Also you will find a discussion of the upheavals caused by many technologies 
over the millennia in our book ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATIONS:
General Purpose Technologies and Long Term Economic Growth (Richard G. 
Lipsey, Kenneth I. Carlaw, and Clifford T. Bekar)


Richard Lipsey





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Sent: Saturday, March 26, 2011 8:14 PM
Subject: [SHOE] Another question


> First of all, thanks to those who figured out how to get the book off
> of Google a couple of days ago.  Now, I have another question.
> Schumpeter writes about violence against saw mills in 1663 [Business
> Cycles, i, p. 243].  I know that the Dutch had wind driven mills, but
> I had not hear of power driven mills that early in England nor about
> the workers' resistence to technology.
>
> Thanks again to all.
>
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> Michael Perelman
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