The Industrial RevolutionS. Sonnenschein & Company, Lim., 1901 - 105 pages |
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... clothes , not " fashionably cut " shoddy ; good news , not party lies and foolish flattery and idle or malicious gossip ; real information ( which need not be cheap , and cannot be easy , for knowledge is not an easy thing to get , but ...
... clothes , not " fashionably cut " shoddy ; good news , not party lies and foolish flattery and idle or malicious gossip ; real information ( which need not be cheap , and cannot be easy , for knowledge is not an easy thing to get , but ...
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... century man produced the necessaries of life - food , clothing , and the like - by the labour of his hands , almost unaided by machinery . The flail , the primitive plough , the spinning wheel , the hand loom ENGLAND IN 1760 3 °
... century man produced the necessaries of life - food , clothing , and the like - by the labour of his hands , almost unaided by machinery . The flail , the primitive plough , the spinning wheel , the hand loom ENGLAND IN 1760 3 °
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... clothing abundant , and the regular wages could be supplemented with earnings from spinning , weaving , and lace - making . Communities were isolated through lack of facilities for communication , life was simple , and education ...
... clothing abundant , and the regular wages could be supplemented with earnings from spinning , weaving , and lace - making . Communities were isolated through lack of facilities for communication , life was simple , and education ...
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... clothing , shelter , and implements . " Each village had its mill , generally the property of the lord of the manor ; almost every house had its oven and brewing cauldron . Women spun wool into coarse cloth ; men tanned their own ...
... clothing , shelter , and implements . " Each village had its mill , generally the property of the lord of the manor ; almost every house had its oven and brewing cauldron . Women spun wool into coarse cloth ; men tanned their own ...
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... clothing trade . The long wool thus passed into the hand of the combers , and , having been brought back to them in the combed state , was again carefully packed and strapped on the back England in 1760 ¡ 15 . of the sturdy horse 14 THE ...
... clothing trade . The long wool thus passed into the hand of the combers , and , having been brought back to them in the combed state , was again carefully packed and strapped on the back England in 1760 ¡ 15 . of the sturdy horse 14 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