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 517 jealous of the introduction of cotton weaving, or of any AD a textile art that might interfere with the market for their ’ goods’, and Parliament looked askance on the manufacture and cotton and printing of cotton fabrics. The Huguenots started calico printing at Richmond in Surrey? The prohibition of Indian fabricsé, which had been devised in the interest of the woollen manufacture, told for a time in favour of the new trade; but under Anne, an excise was imposed on English-printed goods®, The wares produced in England, by printing white goods imported from India, suited the public taste so well, that the jealousy of the woollen manufacturers revived. It seems that there was a violent outbreak, especially at Colchester. Defoe gives us a curious were picture of the conflicting interests at stake. The rioters to" appear to have mobbed and insulted the women who wore fu these fabrics, and they even threw aqua fortis over their clothes and into their carriages. If Defoe’s® statement is to be relied on, we cannot wonder that the taste for these goods developed so rapidly, as they only cost an eighth part of the price of the woollen fabrics they supplanted. He appears, however, to have sympathised with the weavers, as also did Parliament; for, in 1720, an Act was passed” which pro- hibited the use of these calicoes, whether printed at home or abroad. The trade suffered a severe blow; but was continued in the printing of linens, and later of cotton with a linen warp. The industries, which were thus introduced and fostered, were, for the most part, developed on capitalistic lines. «If and these we take a view of those Towns where the Silk and Cotton fades Trades have settled themselves, we shall find there ten 1 A scheme for increasing the home demand for cloth is contained in A brief deduction of the origin, ete. of the British Woollen Manufacture (1727), p. 51. It zives an admirable description of the local distribution of the trade, of its history, vith the names of Flemish settlers, and of the development of foreign competition. ! Baines, The History of the Cotton Manufacture, 259. 3 Baines, op. cit. 259. 411 and 12 W. IIL c. 10. An act for the more effectual employing the poor by encouraging the manufactures of this Kingdom. 3 10 Anne, ¢. 19; 12 Anne, ii. ¢. 9. i 'W, Lee, Daniel Defoe, 11. 138. i 7 Geo. I. ¢. 7, amended 9 Geo. 11, ¢. 4.

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