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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CAPITALIST AND DOMESTIC SYSTEMS IN CLOTHING TRADE 503 to procure the hand-jennies which were used in spinning, A.D. 1659 and thus to get more yarn spun under their own roofs. These new inventions of the eighteenth century were quite con- gruent with the domestic system’, while the attempt to took : . : t introduce them gave rise to conflicts between the masters eRe and men in capitalist areas. Up till the eve of the intro- duction of steam-power, domestic weaving seems to have been readily compatible with the introduction of labour-saving appliances, and to have developed in Yorkshire because of she economic advantages it possessed, though capitalism had been established in the West of England district. 227. The cloth manufacture had been conducted in many Pains were 2 . . taken to parts of the country with a view to foreign markets, from open and the fifteenth century onwards, and had to some extent dis- 75%, played a capitalist character at that period”. Special pains ats for . . English had been taken that the expansion of English commerce, in clot. she seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, should cause an increased demand for the product of English looms. This object has been kept in view in the struggle about well- ordered trade, in the negotiations for the Methuen Treaty, and in the agitation for maintaining it; and a similar feeling somes out in the conditions which were eventually imposed on the East India Company, in regard to the export of English goods®. The government were at pains to foster the cloth trade, not merely by opening up better markets abroad, but by fresh industrial regulation. It is in all probability true that the machinery for maintaining the quality of the manu- facture had fallen into disuse*, and there is very little fresh Brief Biographies of Inventors of Machines, p. 3. On the other hand, the flying shuttle does not appear to have come into use in the West of England till 1796 ‘Reports, ete. 1840, xxiv, 892, printed pag. 372), and the Eastern Counties weavers aad apparently been forced to adopt it before that date. Arthur Young notes at Dolchester in 1784, * The manufactory is exceedingly improved by means of a mechanical addition to the loom, which enables one weaver to do the business of two. In wide stuffs they formerly had two hands fo a loom, now only one.” Annals of Agriculture, mm. 109. 1 The machinery for the finishing of the cloth does not appear to have been compatible with the domestic system. The shearmen in Yorkshire, who were wage-earners employed by merchants, resisted the introduction of gig-mills, while ‘he West of England manufacturers were successful in doing so. See below, p. 661. * See Vol. 1. p. 437. 8 In 1768. See above, p. 470. i An attempt was made to reconstruct it in the West Riding by creating a clothiers’ corporation. 14 C. II. ec. 82.

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