The Industrial Revolution

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URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-159926

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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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CONTENTS xiii 236. The Problems of Poverty. The pressure of pauperism called forth from time to time discussions which throw light on contemporary social conditions during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The decline in the power of the Council, after the Civil War, gave scope for the consideration of local, to the neglect of national interests. Labourers had & double source of income, and their position was so secure, that they could afford to be idle; additional opportunities of employment did not absorb the vagrant population, who were permitted in the seventeenth century to squat on the common wastes instead of working, till they were checked by the Act of 1662, which imposed serious restrictions on the labouring classes, Fluctuations of trade increased the numbers of unemployed ; and schemes for relieving the rates and employing the poor were tried in many towns. The establishment of workhouses, and the system of farming the poor, checked the increase of rates, as did the war on cottages, but at the cost of much suffering. Since some persons fell into poverty through no fault of their own, because of fluctuations in trade, there was a reaction against stringent administration in 1783, and against the settlement re. strictions in 1795, so as to render the granting of lavish relief more common, . . » . . . 562 237. The Incidental effects of English Rural Development on Ireland. The encouragement of the English landed ‘interest reacted unfavourably on Irish land management ; few of the landlords devoted capital fo improving tillage, while their pasture farming was discouraged, and their timber exhausted. - - 580 XVII. TBE BEGINNING OF THE Exp. 238. The Revolt of the Colonies. The severance of the American colonies broke up the British commercial system, and discredited its principles. Economic grievances gave an occasion for the breach, but they only pressed seriously because of the colonial lack of interest in Hanoverian politics, and owing to the fact that the colonists felt strong enough to work out their own political destiny without British protection. The principles of the British system had been applied in America, so as to affect consumers of manufactured goods and to repress colonial industries; but American cconomic grievances did not determine the line of cleavage on which the severance occurred. . 2 . . . , . . . 583 239. The Union with Ireland. British statesmen were led by the American revolt to treat Ireland more favourably, The Irish in 1783 imitated parliamentary Colbertism, with regard to tillage and internal sommunication, and in promoting fisheries and manufactures. The English Bouse of Commons was determined to control economic life throughout the British Isles, and a legislative union was the only course available, so that recourse was had to the plan already adopted in regard to Scotland. . » " . : . . 588 240. Adam Smith and the Wealth of Nations. Adam Smith supplied a justification for a change of economic policy, by treating National Wealth without direct reference to Power; he created Economic Science, He held shat if each individual were free $o seek his own wealth the national wealth

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