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... finally , position in society . After the mercantile capitalists , who derived most of their wealth from foreign trade , came the capitalists who amassed great fortunes from home manufacturing industries . This latter class , which ...
... finally , position in society . After the mercantile capitalists , who derived most of their wealth from foreign trade , came the capitalists who amassed great fortunes from home manufacturing industries . This latter class , which ...
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... Finally , the merchant would get together thirty or forty looms in a town . This was the nearest approach to the capitalist system before the great mechanical inventions . " Thus the ownership of the raw materials passed to the ...
... Finally , the merchant would get together thirty or forty looms in a town . This was the nearest approach to the capitalist system before the great mechanical inventions . " Thus the ownership of the raw materials passed to the ...
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... finally forced from the competitive arena . There were only 2,400 power looms in operation in 1813 , while in 1833 the number had increased to more than 100,000 . Other machines for carrying out the minor processes of spinning and ...
... finally forced from the competitive arena . There were only 2,400 power looms in operation in 1813 , while in 1833 the number had increased to more than 100,000 . Other machines for carrying out the minor processes of spinning and ...
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... finally entered into partner- ship with Matthew Boulton , of Birmingham , who had bought the interest of his former partner , Mr. Roebuck , In 1768 he settled in Birmingham , and for many years worked without ceasing on improvements on ...
... finally entered into partner- ship with Matthew Boulton , of Birmingham , who had bought the interest of his former partner , Mr. Roebuck , In 1768 he settled in Birmingham , and for many years worked without ceasing on improvements on ...
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... finally became engine - man at the colliery . He was stimulated by a desire to know more about the steam - engine , with which Watt and Boulton were astonishing the world , and since he could not read , he began to attend night- school ...
... finally became engine - man at the colliery . He was stimulated by a desire to know more about the steam - engine , with which Watt and Boulton were astonishing the world , and since he could not read , he began to attend night- school ...
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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