The Industrial Revolution in the Eighteenth Century: An outline of the beginnings of the modern factory system in EnglandThis 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 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
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Conflicts between capital and labour The cleavage | 74 |
its twofold | 83 |
this was | 90 |
1 Period of the jenny | 246 |
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 |
COMMERCIAL EXPANSION | 91 |
Outlines of the history of British trade Maritime expansion | 99 |
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 |
its slowness before | 178 |
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 |
James Watt With him science first makes its appearance | 318 |
Boultons activity and ambition com | 330 |
The invention of the steam engine completes industrial | 337 |
bound up with economic progress Malthuss book | 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 income Insufficiency | 425 |
alternating | 431 |
CHAPTER FOUR | 440 |
Appeal to State intervention The workers ask for | 451 |
The humanitarian movement Its origins entirely outside | 464 |
The first Factory Act Childrens work in the spinning | 474 |
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