Industrial Nation

A social and cultural history of Scotland's industrial rise and relative decline, concerned above all with the leaders and workers (industrail, political, manufacturing, mining and engineering, as well as religious, union, educational, and moral) who produced the first and suffered in the second.

George Peden

W.W. Knox is to be congratulated for adjusting the focus to bring in the experience of the whole Scottish working class, and their leaders over two centuries.
&151#; The Times Literary Supplement

William W. Knox is a lecturer in Scottish history at the University of St. Andrews.