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Page 14
... raw materials , the tools , and the power were owned by the head of the household . These little units made up a portion of the industrial structure of the nation . Originally the communities of labourers worked to satisfy their own ...
... raw materials , the tools , and the power were owned by the head of the household . These little units made up a portion of the industrial structure of the nation . Originally the communities of labourers worked to satisfy their own ...
Page 15
... raw materials passed to the manufacturer , even before the factory system supplanted domestic industry . However , we must not lose sight of the fact that the substitution of power - driven machinery for hand labour was necessary to ...
... raw materials passed to the manufacturer , even before the factory system supplanted domestic industry . However , we must not lose sight of the fact that the substitution of power - driven machinery for hand labour was necessary to ...
Page 24
... raw material was worked up by hand , with the aid of a few rough - hewn tools . Wooden combs , about 5 by 6 inches , fitted with fine teeth and manipulated by hand , were used for card- ing and preparing the raw materials , while the ...
... raw material was worked up by hand , with the aid of a few rough - hewn tools . Wooden combs , about 5 by 6 inches , fitted with fine teeth and manipulated by hand , were used for card- ing and preparing the raw materials , while the ...
Page 28
... raw materials now confronted the cotton growers of America . The capacity of the jenny had multiplied many fold , but it still took an old 28 THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION.
... raw materials now confronted the cotton growers of America . The capacity of the jenny had multiplied many fold , but it still took an old 28 THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION.
Page 45
... raw materials and the manufactured products for themselves . Even where several men worked under one master , there was no complete separation as we see in modern life . " The manufacturer employed a group of journeymen and a few ...
... raw materials and the manufactured products for themselves . Even where several men worked under one master , there was no complete separation as we see in modern life . " The manufacturer employed a group of journeymen and a few ...
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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