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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CAPITAL AND THE PLANTING OF NEW INDUSTRIES 515 work’. Employers were responsible for guaranteeing the Ab Jose excellence of the product, and they were obviously coming to have a great deal of power in determining the circum- stances and terms under which labour was carried on. 229. While these changes were occurring in the old established industries of the country there was also a con- siderable development of new trades. There had been very little opening for the planting of new manufactures during the greater part of the seventeenth century, but towards its The close an opportunity arose of which Charles II. had been Ci ing ready to take advantage to the fullest extent®. Parliament J 22P2" was also prepared to encourage the religious refugees from phuidfng France, though the government did not adopt the same dustries measures as had commended themselves to Lord Burleigh under similar circumstances’. The legislature did not grant the Huguenots exceptional industrial privileges, but preferred to pass measures which should serve to foster the new industries, in whatever part of the realm they might be carried on. The principal expedient adopted was that of promoting consumption by legislative enact- ment. The policy of insisting that the public should use certain wares, when other goods would suit them as well or better, is a particularly fussy form of protection. It does not obviously encourage the general industry of the country, but only stimulates one trade at the expense of others. A curious sumptuary law was passed, in 1698, which lays down minute regulations in regard to buttons‘ These had been the subject of legislation under Charles IL*; in the time of Queen Anne? button-holes were also taken into consideration; and the substitution of serge for silk in covering buttons and working button-holes gave rise to a stirring debate in 17387. There was similar legislation in which Par- liament a y legis- lation for promoting consump- tion at home 1 As Mr Unwin points out, the exceptional condition of the Feltmakers’ trade enabled them to maintain an effective system of regulation after the company had necome capitalist in character. 1 See above, p. 328. 3 See above, pp. 82, 330. t 10 and 11 W. IIL e. 10. Cunningham, Alien Immigrants, p. 237. 5 13 and 14 C. IT. ec. 13. 3 8 Anne, c. 6. For employing the manufacturers by encouraging the com~ winption of raw silk and mohair yarn. T Parl. Hist. x. 787. 292 9

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