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... field is undertaken . Industrial History is the story of man's labour with tools and mechanical and power appliances for the satisfaction of his wants . By the Industrial Revolution we mean that great trans- formation which has been ...
... field is undertaken . Industrial History is the story of man's labour with tools and mechanical and power appliances for the satisfaction of his wants . By the Industrial Revolution we mean that great trans- formation which has been ...
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... fields during certain portions of the year . It is estimated that 3,600,000 , out of a population of 8,500,000 , lived in the country , and that their income was £ 66,000,000 , out of a total national income of £ 119,500,000 . While ...
... fields during certain portions of the year . It is estimated that 3,600,000 , out of a population of 8,500,000 , lived in the country , and that their income was £ 66,000,000 , out of a total national income of £ 119,500,000 . While ...
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... fields . A large portion of Essex was covered by Hainault and Epping Forest . Wide tracts of the weald of Surrey lay unused and desolate . The bogs and fens of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire were yet un- tapped , while barren ...
... fields . A large portion of Essex was covered by Hainault and Epping Forest . Wide tracts of the weald of Surrey lay unused and desolate . The bogs and fens of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire were yet un- tapped , while barren ...
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... field tillage . Though the Peasants ' Revolt and other economic forces had broken up the old manorial system , the village organisation as the centre of open field farms still existed over a large portion of the country . The land ...
... field tillage . Though the Peasants ' Revolt and other economic forces had broken up the old manorial system , the village organisation as the centre of open field farms still existed over a large portion of the country . The land ...
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... fields , and each field was sub- divided by balks into strips about three yards wide , containing an acre or a half - acre . Each farmer held at least one strip in each field . One of the arable fields was left fallow every year ; while ...
... fields , and each field was sub- divided by balks into strips about three yards wide , containing an acre or a half - acre . Each farmer held at least one strip in each field . One of the arable fields was left fallow every year ; while ...
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Adam Smith agriculture amount Arkwright became capital capitalist centres chapter CHARLES BEARD classes clothing Co-operative combination compete competition cotton Democracy disease economic eighteenth century electric employed employers energy England English estimated factory system forces freedom of contract French Revolution Government hand workers horse-power human hundred ignorant important improved increased individual industrial organisation Industrial Revolution inventors iron labour Lancashire land legislation machinery machines Manchester manufacture markets means mechanical inventions medieval ment methods mill owners modern moral nation natural necessary operation output Parliament persons political political economists population power loom problem production profit progress railway rapidly raw materials reform regulation restrictions Robert Owen secure Sidney Webb social society spinning steam steam-engine struggle supply textile things tion to-day towns trade Trade Unionism transportation turn utilisation vast wages waste water frame wealth weaver weaving wool