The Industrial Revolution in the Eighteenth Century: An Outline of the Beginnings of the Modern Factory System in England

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Taylor & Francis, Nov 3, 2005 - Business & Economics - 552 pages

This classic volume, first published in 1928, is a comprehensive introduction to all aspects of the Industrial Revolution. Arranged in three distinct parts, it covers:

* Preparatory Changes
* Inventions and Factories
* The Immediate Consequences.

A valuable reference, it is, as Professor T. S. Ashton says in his preface to this work, 'in both its architecture and detail this volume is by far the best introduction to the subject in any language... one of a few works on economic history that can justly be spoken of as classics'.

 

Contents

its present characteristics
25
Condition of the industrial classes The master craftsman
37
CHAPTER
47
Conflicts between capital and labour The cleavage
74
its twofold
83
this was
89
COMMERCIAL EXPANSION
91
Outlines of the history of British trade Maritime expansion
99
Economic liberty It is not true to say that the cotton
256
Machinery in the woollen trade Concentration of
261
CHAPTER THREE
271
the vanishing
280
Conversion of pig iron into bar iron Invention of puddling
292
The iron industry in England at the end of the eighteenth
305
CHAPTER FOUR
311
James Watt With him science first makes its appearance
318

the growth of the port
105
bad state of the roads Early efforts
112
The creation of canals retarded by the development of
120
THE REDISTRIBUTION OF THE LAND
136
individual ownership and common
146
Agricultural reform The condition of the country before
156
hence
163
Economic and social results Disappearance of common
169
The townward movement begins Yeomen after selling
180
THE BEGINNINGS OF MACHINERY
189
its beginnings The pro
197
The cotton industry before the introduction of machinery
204
CHAPTER
220
Samuel Cromptons mule 1779 How the manufacturers
234
1 Period of the jenny
246
Boultons activity and ambition com
330
The invention of the steam engine completes industrial
337
THE FACTORY SYSTEM
341
Change in distribution of population Its present distribu
354
The centres of the iron industry Birmingham and
362
The qualities needed The question of capital organization
379
Results of commercial expansion Division of labour varies
394
Labour in the factories Dislike of the workers for factory
418
their expenses Rise
426
CHAPTER FOUR
440
Appeal to State intervention The workers ask for
451
The humanitarian movement Its origins entirely outside
464
General characteristics of the industrial revolution
474
The great ironworks The Darbys at Coalbrookdale
521
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