The Industrial Revolution

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Identifikator:: 1027928145

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-159926

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Cunningham, William http://d-nb.info/gnd/128907487

Title:: The Industrial Revolution

Place of publication:: Cambridge

Publisher:: The University Press

Year of publication:: 1922

Scope:: xxii S., S. 404-886

Digitisation:: 2021

Collection:: Economics Books

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THE INFLUENCE OF COMMERCE ON INDUSTRY 495 There were, however, considerable obstacles to the in- 4D 0% definite expansion of industry; the limit, beyond which it was difficult to carry the development of any trade’, was set by the supply of materials. The English clothiers were largely A501 2 engaged in working up English wool; it was because of the for estab abundance and excellent quality of this product that weavers trades were had migrated to this country in such large numbers. But Hafod, the wool-supply could not be largely increased at will, especially during a period when arable cultivation was coming more generally into vogue. Similarly the ship- builders and the tanners made use of English-grown ma- terials, while the ironworkers were dependent on the amount of wood available for fuel. It seemed as if each of the staple trades of the country had almost reached its natural limit during the early eighteenth century. Efforts were indeed made to supplement the home production by the import of Spanish? and Irish® wool, and similar expedients were adopted in other trades; but the landed interest was inclined to take exception to such measures. Hence comparatively little progress resulted from all the care that was lavished on the staple trades. There was, however, considerable scope for planting and # seemed developing exotic trades, which consisted in working up im- to plant vorted materials; and circumstances favoured the movement Sy in this direction. The incursion of the Huguenots had, indeed, been most beneficial, by giving the country the advantage of new methods and superior skill in making use of its own materials; the immigrants were still more welcome as adepts in trades which had not hitherto been practised in Britain with much success. Of the manufactures to which they inwhich the Huguenots were skilled, 1 Protection, which maintains a trade after this limit has been reached, is much less defensible than protection which aims at rendering the utilisation of native resources as complete as possible. The differences come out in connection with the protection afforded by the Corn Laws before and after the period 1778 —1791; see below, p. 730. 2 A treatise of Wool and the Manufacture of st, Brit. Mus. 712. g. 16 (21), 1685, p. 9; also England's Interest by Trade asserted [Brit. Mas. 1102. h. 1 (8)], »- 22. James, History of the Worsted Manufacture, p. 206. 3 The Grasier's Complaint, p. 28 (1726), Brit. Mus. 712. g. 16 (37). Defoe, Plan of the English Commerce (p. 156), estimates that 100,000 Packs of Wool were ported yearly from Ireland, besides Scotch wool which was said to be worth £60.000 at the time of the Union.

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