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... increased facilities for intercourse , wrought wonderful changes in the social organism . It brought with it long hours , over- work , over - crowding , and other evils . It called into existence suddenly the factory towns , with their ...
... increased facilities for intercourse , wrought wonderful changes in the social organism . It brought with it long hours , over- work , over - crowding , and other evils . It called into existence suddenly the factory towns , with their ...
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... increasing fascination ; but being inseparably interwoven with the life and labour of the people , it has an interest as deep and abiding as the problems of human health , happiness , character , and power . Sec . 3. - England in 1760 ...
... increasing fascination ; but being inseparably interwoven with the life and labour of the people , it has an interest as deep and abiding as the problems of human health , happiness , character , and power . Sec . 3. - England in 1760 ...
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... increased rapidly in the eighteenth century . Between 1710 and 1760 , 334,974 acres were enclosed , and between 1760 and 1843 the enclosure amounted almost to 7,000,000 acres . Whatever injustice the enclosure may have wrought , it is ...
... increased rapidly in the eighteenth century . Between 1710 and 1760 , 334,974 acres were enclosed , and between 1760 and 1843 the enclosure amounted almost to 7,000,000 acres . Whatever injustice the enclosure may have wrought , it is ...
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... persons were employed in brass and copper industry in 1720 ; and silk , hosiery , linen , glass , and other minor industries were increasing in importance . At the Sec . 9. - Mechanical Inventions before 1760. 10 THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION.
... persons were employed in brass and copper industry in 1720 ; and silk , hosiery , linen , glass , and other minor industries were increasing in importance . At the Sec . 9. - Mechanical Inventions before 1760. 10 THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION.
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... increased rapidly in numbers and wealth after the advent of the great inventions , had been gradually rising as masters of other workmen , until , in 1760 , we hear of a few mills employing large numbers of labourers . The dependence of ...
... increased rapidly in numbers and wealth after the advent of the great inventions , had been gradually rising as masters of other workmen , until , in 1760 , we hear of a few mills employing large numbers of labourers . The dependence of ...
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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