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... the country , but was distributed among centres , large and small , throughout England . The cotton industry , which was as yet quite unimportant , centred in Lancashire . The manufactured goods at Manchester and ENGLAND IN 1760 9.
... the country , but was distributed among centres , large and small , throughout England . The cotton industry , which was as yet quite unimportant , centred in Lancashire . The manufactured goods at Manchester and ENGLAND IN 1760 9.
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Charles Austin Beard. centred in Lancashire . The manufactured goods at Manchester and Bolton consisted largely of cotton stuffs . We are told that the number of spinners em- ployed in and out of Manchester was immense , and that they ...
Charles Austin Beard. centred in Lancashire . The manufactured goods at Manchester and Bolton consisted largely of cotton stuffs . We are told that the number of spinners em- ployed in and out of Manchester was immense , and that they ...
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... Lancashire , " says Toynbee , " we can trace step by step the growth of the capitalist employer . At first we see , as in Yorkshire , the weaver furnishing himself with warp and weft , which he worked up in his own house and brought ...
... Lancashire , " says Toynbee , " we can trace step by step the growth of the capitalist employer . At first we see , as in Yorkshire , the weaver furnishing himself with warp and weft , which he worked up in his own house and brought ...
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... Lancashire could in the eighteenth century . Bell's in- vention of cylinder printing in 1783 enabled a man and a boy to turn out as much as two hundred men and boys , while the application of oxymuriatic acid to bleaching shortened that ...
... Lancashire could in the eighteenth century . Bell's in- vention of cylinder printing in 1783 enabled a man and a boy to turn out as much as two hundred men and boys , while the application of oxymuriatic acid to bleaching shortened that ...
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... Lancashire , would be impossible if it could not command a world market . With the extension of commerce and industry there came a demand for improved methods of transportation . Canals , stage- coaches , pack - horses , waggons , and ...
... Lancashire , would be impossible if it could not command a world market . With the extension of commerce and industry there came a demand for improved methods of transportation . Canals , stage- coaches , pack - horses , waggons , and ...
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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