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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506 PARLIAMENTARY COLBERTISM protect local weavers against middlemen? who purchased for the large employers, or with a view to export’ In the sixteenth century, however, the wholesale purchasers seem to have obtained an undisputed position in the wool trade, and the domestic manufacturers could not purchase direct from attempts the grower. Henry VIII. endeavoured to force the dealing ore made in this commodity back on to the old lines by his Weavers’ he large Act®; but under Edward VI. it seemed preferable to recognise akers from the new order of affairs. The domestic weavers, and the sngrossing . t. spinners they employed, were forced to have recourse to middlemen in order to obtain wool, either for carding or combing, in the quantities that they could afford to buy. Hence the general prohibition against regrators was relaxed in favour of the poorer workers, in the neighbourhood of Norwich, and also round Halifax®. The recriminations against the wool merchants, by the weavers, continued shrough the sixteenth and seventeenth® centuries, but no satisfactory method of giving the domestic spinners and weavers a preference could be devised. The domestic weaver, who could not buy a large stock of material, evidently found it difficult to procure wool or yarn as he required it, and this must have hampered him in the pursuit of his calling; the wealthy undertaker was much less likely to suffer from this difficulty. It may be conjectured that one reason why the domestic system survived so long as it did in Yorkshire was because the little grass farmers round Leeds, who worked as weavers, were able to rely to some extent on local supplies. 2nd to The Tudor and Stuart regulation of the wool trade insist that : . they should appears to have been intended to protect the domestic weaver 4 Lu from capitalist competition; but the government also busied wages, itgelf to secure satisfactory conditions for the weavers who were working for wages. This class was not explicitly pro- vided for in the statute of 1563; but authority was given for settling the rates of pay per piece in 15977, and in a A.D. 1689 ~1776. 1 Lohmann, op. cit. 66. 27 Edw. IIL. ii. ¢. 8; 31 Edw. III. c. 2; 14 RB. IL. c. 4. 1 4 Henry VII ec. 11. 8 37 Henry VIL. c. 15. | Edw. VIL c. 6. 5 2 and 3 P. and M. c. 13. See above, p. 298. Regulations on this and kindred matters were drafted in 1593 (S. P. D. EL yexXLIV. 126—130). but the measure became law as 39 El. ¢. 12.

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