The hand-loom weaver and the power loom: a Schumpeterian perspective by Allen, R

“…A famous example is the shift from hand loom weaving to the use of power looms in mills. As the use of power looms expanded, the price of cloth fell, and the 'golden age of the hand loom weaver' gave way to poverty and unemployment. …”

Capturing the political? The role of political analysis in the multi-disciplining of development studies. by Hickey, S

“…Overall, the contribution of political analysis to a genuinely multidisciplinary development studies turns on its capacity to reveal how ‘the political’ as well as ‘politics’ links to development, a task achieved most successfully in approaches that weave historical and political sociology perspectives into political analysis, and engage with critical theory.…”