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... became useless and void . The old economic order and basis of life were swept away , and in the confusion- " the wreck of matter and crush of worlds " -it seemed as if man had become utterly powerless to adjust himself to the new ...
... became useless and void . The old economic order and basis of life were swept away , and in the confusion- " the wreck of matter and crush of worlds " -it seemed as if man had become utterly powerless to adjust himself to the new ...
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... became dependent on them . 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 ...
... became dependent on them . 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 ...
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... became of practical utility . Kay's invention , however , proved useful at once , and , increasing two - fold the productive capacity of a weaver , multiplied rapidly the demand for cotton yarn which had hitherto been supplied by the ...
... became of practical utility . Kay's invention , however , proved useful at once , and , increasing two - fold the productive capacity of a weaver , multiplied rapidly the demand for cotton yarn which had hitherto been supplied by the ...
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... became an important centre . The difficulty of procuring fuel prevented any extensive development , because wood was considered necessary to the smelting processes . About 1750 the process of smelting by coal became effective , and at ...
... became an important centre . The difficulty of procuring fuel prevented any extensive development , because wood was considered necessary to the smelting processes . About 1750 the process of smelting by coal became effective , and at ...
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... 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 at the ...
... 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 at the ...
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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