The Industrial RevolutionS. Sonnenschein & Company, Lim., 1901 - 105 pages |
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... important branches of knowledge . Such primers are useful ; they help one through the hard beginnings of the subjects ; they show one how to go on and master the thing by one's self . They give one admitted results , and show one the ...
... important branches of knowledge . Such primers are useful ; they help one through the hard beginnings of the subjects ; they show one how to go on and master the thing by one's self . They give one admitted results , and show one the ...
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... important , and composed more than one - fourth of the entire export . The industry was not concentrated in any one part of the country , but was distributed among centres , large and small , throughout England . The cotton industry ...
... important , and composed more than one - fourth of the entire export . The industry was not concentrated in any one part of the country , but was distributed among centres , large and small , throughout England . The cotton industry ...
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... importance to the woollen industry was the iron trade which , according to Hobson's estimate , employed , in all its branches , about 200,000 persons . The chief centre of production was in Sussex , where ten furnaces yielded an annual ...
... importance to the woollen industry was the iron trade which , according to Hobson's estimate , employed , in all its branches , about 200,000 persons . The chief centre of production was in Sussex , where ten furnaces yielded an annual ...
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... important industry - woollen manufacture — very primi- tive machinery was used . Spinning and weaving were , of course , done by hand , though a few improvements had been made in textile machinery . In 1730 , Wyatt had invented roller ...
... important industry - woollen manufacture — very primi- tive machinery was used . Spinning and weaving were , of course , done by hand , though a few improvements had been made in textile machinery . In 1730 , Wyatt had invented roller ...
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... important than capital . This secured the freedom of the workers from the routine of the capitalist factory system and its attendant disadvantages , and allowed them to be , to a certain extent , their own masters . Though the workers ...
... important than capital . This secured the freedom of the workers from the routine of the capitalist factory system and its attendant disadvantages , and allowed them to be , to a certain extent , their own masters . Though the workers ...
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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