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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532 PARLIAMENTARY COLBERTISM 1 D.1689 deeply indebted to their masters, and thus sank to a position —1776. prepa of absolute dependence’. In other cases the system of yo apprenticeship operated so as to produce similar results. toe. « Here,” said the commissioners in Staffordshire, in 1842, «is a slavery in the middle of England as reprehensible as ever was the slavery in the West Indies, which justice and humanity alike demand should no longer be endured?” The publicity thus given appears to have been of advantage? and a considerable improvement took place within the next few years. The sm- 932. The increased demand for coal as fuel and the nal prospect of opening up new beds so as to obtain a profit- water co, able return was the direct motive for the first serious attempt to improve internal communication by water. The Duke of Bridgewater, with the help of James Brindley, embarked on a great scheme for connecting Worsley with Manchester by a canal, so as to effect a saving in the cost of carting coal from his pits to the growing city. The success which attended his achievement led to its being imitated in many other places, with the result that in the course of a few years England was covered with a net-work of canals. The fact that it was possible to sink money in such large and expensive undertakings is in itself an indication thab sapital was more readily available. Many of the schemes which were now carried out had been mooted more than a hundred years before. In Holland the facilities for water communication were obvious to every passing traveller, and an immense amount had been done under Henri IV. to improve the rivers and construct canals in France®. There were plenty of models for Englishmen to copy; but they had not the means of effecting such costly improvements. Varranton Was a writer who argued that the problem of providing an adequate food supply for London and other kad often been projected, 189 Geo. III. c. 56, § 6. This measure seems to have proved effective. Reports, etc., 1844, XVI. 9. 2 Reports, etc., 1842, Xv. 54, printed pag. 42. 8 Reports, 1844, xv1. 56. 1 See the third instruction to the Commission of 1650. Parl. or Const. Hist. t1x. 315. Also 16 and 17 Charles 11. ce. 6, 11, 12 (private). 5 Faoniez. Economie sociale de la France sous Henri IV., p. 188.

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