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... large number of workers was required to turn out a comparatively small product . We have no very reliable information as to the amount of land which was actually in cultivation at this time . Gregory King estimated THE INDUSTRIAL ...
... large number of workers was required to turn out a comparatively small product . We have no very reliable information as to the amount of land which was actually in cultivation at this time . Gregory King estimated THE INDUSTRIAL ...
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... land - agent in 1729 , one - half of the country was waste . Though these estimates may be far from accurate , there is sufficient evidence to warrant a conclusion that there were at the close of the eighteenth century throughout ...
... land - agent in 1729 , one - half of the country was waste . Though these estimates may be far from accurate , there is sufficient evidence to warrant a conclusion that there were at the close of the eighteenth century throughout ...
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... land exhausted by continued crops and ignorant tillers , However , for more than fifty years before the Industrial ... land and poor pastures . The introduction of rotation of crops did away with exhaustion of the soil . " Writers of ...
... land exhausted by continued crops and ignorant tillers , However , for more than fifty years before the Industrial ... land and poor pastures . The introduction of rotation of crops did away with exhaustion of the soil . " Writers of ...
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... land was laid off into three fields , and each field was sub- divided by balks into strips about three yards wide ... land was also laid off in strips , for which the villagers drew lots . When the hay had been taken off , the meadow ...
... land was laid off into three fields , and each field was sub- divided by balks into strips about three yards wide ... land was also laid off in strips , for which the villagers drew lots . When the hay had been taken off , the meadow ...
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... land to make room for the vast field system and sheep and cattle raising . A few individuals were made rich , prices were probably lowered ; but the poor at large suffered in several ways . Sec . 6. - Life in the Agricultural Village ...
... land to make room for the vast field system and sheep and cattle raising . A few individuals were made rich , prices were probably lowered ; but the poor at large suffered in several ways . Sec . 6. - Life in the Agricultural Village ...
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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