The Industrial RevolutionS. Sonnenschein & Company, Lim., 1901 - 105 pages |
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Page vii
... stuff which ought never to have been made , and would never be sold if people only took the trouble to try and understand the differ- ence between real art and sham art ; if they only knew so much as that a machine can only copy , it ...
... stuff which ought never to have been made , and would never be sold if people only took the trouble to try and understand the differ- ence between real art and sham art ; if they only knew so much as that a machine can only copy , it ...
Page 8
... stuff with the least expenditure and waste of energy were absolutely impossible under the old system . The intensive ... stuffs and clothing abundant , and the regular wages could be supplemented with earnings from spinning , weaving ...
... stuff with the least expenditure and waste of energy were absolutely impossible under the old system . The intensive ... stuffs and clothing abundant , and the regular wages could be supplemented with earnings from spinning , weaving ...
Page 10
... stuffs . We are told that the number of spinners em- ployed in and out of Manchester was immense , and that they reckoned 30,000 souls in that town , and 50,000 “ manufacturers " employed out of it . A large portion of the cotton output ...
... stuffs . We are told that the number of spinners em- ployed in and out of Manchester was immense , and that they reckoned 30,000 souls in that town , and 50,000 “ manufacturers " employed out of it . A large portion of the cotton output ...
Page 14
... stuffs . Thus the progress of industrial society has been marked by division of labour and separation of industry . At first the workman owned his own tools , and bought raw materials for his own use . However , the domestic worker ...
... stuffs . Thus the progress of industrial society has been marked by division of labour and separation of industry . At first the workman owned his own tools , and bought raw materials for his own use . However , the domestic worker ...
Page 16
... stuffs were reasonable in price , and the wages received secured to the workers the necessaries for a plain life . Life was simpler , and the struggle for existence not so keen as at the present time . There were not the hurry , rush ...
... stuffs were reasonable in price , and the wages received secured to the workers the necessaries for a plain life . Life was simpler , and the struggle for existence not so keen as at the present time . There were not the hurry , rush ...
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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