The Industrial RevolutionS. Sonnenschein & Company, Lim., 1901 - 105 pages |
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... country , but was distributed among centres , large and small , throughout England . The cotton industry , which was as yet quite unimportant , centred in Lancashire . The manufactured goods at Manchester and 3 9 ENGLAND IN 1760.
... country , but was distributed among centres , large and small , throughout England . The cotton industry , which was as yet quite unimportant , centred in Lancashire . The manufactured goods at Manchester and 3 9 ENGLAND IN 1760.
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Charles Beard. 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 reckoned ...
Charles Beard. 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 reckoned ...
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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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... Manchester writer said , in 1842 : “ I never behold a poor factory child , but I instinctively picture to myself the misery which this cursed system ( factory ) entails upon the human family . I was once in the habit of visiting the ...
... Manchester writer said , in 1842 : “ I never behold a poor factory child , but I instinctively picture to myself the misery which this cursed system ( factory ) entails upon the human family . I was once in the habit of visiting the ...
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acres Adam Smith agriculture amount appliances Arkwright became capital capitalists centres classes clothing Co-operative competition cotton Democracy disease duction economic eighteenth century electric employed employers energy England English factory system forces freedom of contract French Revolution Government hand workers horse-power House of Lords human hundred ignorant important improved increased individual industrial organisation Industrial Revolution inventors iron knowledge labour Lancashire land legislation machinery machines Manchester manufacture means mechanical inventions medieval methods mill owners moral nation natural necessary Newcastle-on-Tyne output Parliament persons political economists population power loom problem productive capacity progress railway rapidly raw materials recognised reform regulation restricted Robert Owen sanitary secure Sidney Webb social society spindles spinners spinning steam steam-engine struggle stuffs textile things tion to-day towns trade transportation turn utilisation vast wages waste water frame wealth weaver weaving wool