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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514 PARLIAMENTARY COLBERTISM A.D. 1699 have steadily increased till 1710, when the pressure of the incon. WATS Was severely felt, and the journeymen drew attention to wetion the fact that the regulation about apprentices had been with frame- . . er. persistently neglected. The journeymen, and some of the oy masters, endeavoured to enforce this rule in London, but % pro, without success. The machines of one recalcitrant master, oo named Nicholson, were broken; and he, as well as two others, migrated to Nottingham. The London Company subsequently attempted to enforce the rule against the Nottingham masters, but they had no success. There was in consequence a further migration of the trade to Leicester and Nottingham; and the Company proceeded to frame a series of by-laws which they hoped to enforce, as they obtained the approval of the Chancellor. One of these regulations roused much opposition among the provincial masters, who appealed to the House of Commons against the new by-laws. A Select Committee? reported against the Company; and the evils it had endeavoured to check ~ecame more and more serious. In the decade before the Parliamentary decision, the work in provincial districts ap- pears to have been largely done by apprentices bound by their parishes, who were in many cases badly treated. There was little or no employment for journeymen, and the quality of the output appears to have seriously declined. The con- ditions, which arose through the competition of capitalist smployers in this industry, were not satisfactory from the point of view either of the labourer or of the public. From one cause or another, organisation by capitalist employers? was superseding the system of independent work- men in one trade after another, during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and this change was, generally speaking, inconsistent with the maintenance of the old machinery for regulating the quality of production and the conditions of .n defiance of the London Company, 1 The Company considered that outsiders who bought frames and hired them out, but who did not themselves deal in the product, exercised an injurious influence on the trade. 2 Felkin, op. cit. 80. 8 Dr Sprague has called my attention to an interesting case of combination among shoemakers’ servants at Nottingham in 1619. Records of the Borough of Nottingham, Iv. 362.

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