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Identifikator:: 1011418665

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-21717

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Author:: Pfordten, Otto von der http://d-nb.info/gnd/116173440

Title:: Organisation

Place of publication:: Heidelberg

Publisher:: Carl Winter

Year of publication:: 1917

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (110 Seiten)

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Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: II. Akratie und Aristagie

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A.D. 1776 —1850. with those that cha- racterised cottage mdustries. The con- ditions of work in PATIOUs industries were the sbject of RQUITY LAISSEZ FAIRE noting. It shows that the Industrial Revolution was becoming complete, and that the workers who were not only better off as far as wages went, but better in character, were those who had cast in their lot with the new order of things’. The six years of factory inspection had doubtless contributed to raise the tone among mill-workers; the conditions of life in factory towns, especially with regard to intellectual im- provement, and even in some quarters in regard to sanitation and the housing of the poor, were better than in rural districts. In the opinion of one at least of the Commissioners migration from the country to the towns was but the means by which the population obtained better opportunities of employment and ultimately better conditions of comfort? 271. There was plenty of room for effort to improve the sonditions of work in other industries than the textile trades. The Commission of 1838 had called attention to the state of Jffairs which existed in the potteries and other employments, sut it seemed impossible to bring them under any system of nspection and supervision at that time. The manufacturers were inclined to allege that there was need for reform in connection with rural labour, and that the landowners, who had voted for factory regulation, were by no means blameless. In 1843 special Poor Law Commissioners were appointed to investigate the condition of women and children in agriculture. But when they met, it soon became clear that there was no real case for enquiry. The transition in the rural districts, and disappearance of small farms and cottage industries, had been accompanied by much misery; but the new economic relationships which had been established, under capitalist employers, were not on the whole oppressive’. Agricultural + Reports, 1840, xx1v. 681. Robert Owen's experiment at New Lanark was oerhaps the first instance of a well-regulated factory population, but it did not stand alone, as we may see from the account of Mr Ashton’s mills at Hyde. Ib. 632. Reports, 1840, xx1v. 677. 3 There were however some peculiar cases of contract in different parts of the country which required attention. The worst evils connected with parish apprentices were a thing of the past. It had been the practice of overseers to take the children of parents who had parish allowances, and to assign them by lot to farmers to whom they were bound till they were twenty-one years of age. In some exceptional cases everything went well, but much more commonly the system worked badly, alike for the apprentice who was bullied, and for the master 302

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