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... social movement depending for its numerical strength upon the working classes . CHARLES BEARD . MANCHESTER , January 22 , 1902 . The Industrial Revolution CHAPTER I ENGLAND IN 1760 - AGRICULTURE NOTE TO SECOND EDITION xix.
... social movement depending for its numerical strength upon the working classes . CHARLES BEARD . MANCHESTER , January 22 , 1902 . The Industrial Revolution CHAPTER I ENGLAND IN 1760 - AGRICULTURE NOTE TO SECOND EDITION xix.
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... one part of the country , but was distributed among centres , large and small , throughout England . The cotton industry , which was as yet quite unimportant , J centred in Lancashire . The manufactured goods at Manchester ENGLAND IN 1760.
... one part of the country , but was distributed among centres , large and small , throughout England . The cotton industry , which was as yet quite unimportant , J centred in Lancashire . The manufactured goods at Manchester ENGLAND IN 1760.
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Charles Austin Beard. J 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. J 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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... Manchester gave him out linen warp and raw cotton , and the weaver 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 ...
... Manchester gave him out linen warp and raw cotton , and the weaver 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 ...
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... Manchester , when the con- versation turned on Arkwright's spinning machinery . One of the company observed that as soon as Arkwright's patent expired , so many mills would be erected and so much cotton spun that hands never could be ...
... Manchester , when the con- versation turned on Arkwright's spinning machinery . One of the company observed that as soon as Arkwright's patent expired , so many mills would be erected and so much cotton spun that hands never could be ...
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Adam Smith agriculture amount Arkwright became capital capitalist centres chapter CHARLES BEARD classes clothing combination compelled competition cotton Democracy disease duction economic eighteenth century electric employed employers energy England English estimated factory system forces French Revolution Government hand workers horse-power human hundred ignorant important improved increased individual industrial organisation industrial problem Industrial Revolution inventors iron knowledge labour Lancashire land legislation machinery machines Manchester manufacture markets means mechanical inventions mediæval medieval ment methods mill owners modern moral nation natural necessary Newcastle-on-Tyne operation output Parliament persons political political economists population power loom profit progress railway rapidly raw materials recognised reform regulation restrictions Robert Owen sanitary 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