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... weaving , and lace - making . Communities were isolated through lack of facilities for communication , life was simple , and education certainly not wide - spread ; for we are told by a contemporary that " not one farmer in five ...
... weaving , and lace - making . Communities were isolated through lack of facilities for communication , life was simple , and education certainly not wide - spread ; for we are told by a contemporary that " not one farmer in five ...
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... weaving were , of course , done by hand , though a few improvements had been made in textile machinery . In 1730 , Wyatt had invented roller spinning ; but it did not come into immediate use . In 1738 , Kay of Bury made an important ...
... weaving were , of course , done by hand , though a few improvements had been made in textile machinery . In 1730 , Wyatt had invented roller spinning ; but it did not come into immediate use . In 1738 , Kay of Bury made an important ...
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... weavers , who ultimately delivered to him his camblets or russels , or tammies or calimancoes ( such were the leading names of the fibres ) ready for sale to the merchant or delivery to the dyer . " " In Lancashire , " says Toynbee ...
... weavers , who ultimately delivered to him his camblets or russels , or tammies or calimancoes ( such were the leading names of the fibres ) ready for sale to the merchant or delivery to the dyer . " " In Lancashire , " says Toynbee ...
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... weaving reaches far back beyond written record , to the time when primitive man discarded the skins of wild animals and substituted woven cloth . Early in the history of England wool was an article of export , and in 1100 we read of a ...
... weaving reaches far back beyond written record , to the time when primitive man discarded the skins of wild animals and substituted woven cloth . Early in the history of England wool was an article of export , and in 1100 we read of a ...
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... weaving were quite as crude as those of spinning , for the old treadle loom was still in use , and the shuttle was only a flat stick notched at the ends , around which the weft was wound . Before 1760 a few minor inventions had been ...
... weaving were quite as crude as those of spinning , for the old treadle loom was still in use , and the shuttle was only a flat stick notched at the ends , around which the weft was wound . Before 1760 a few minor inventions had been ...
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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