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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A.D. 1689 —~1776. and the onditions of labour. PARLIAMENTARY COLBERTISM friend Bennet Langton!, that Wilberforce and Clarkson met some influential men, and that the agitation against the slave trade first took practical shape’ The struggle on behalf of labour against capitalism at home® had similar political affinities, for it was commenced by Michael Thomas Sadler, a Tory member of Parliament, and supported by the landed interest at a time when the labourers themselves were apathetic. At the close of the eighteenth century the lines were being already formed for the struggles of the nineteenth. The capitalists were preparing to demand greater freedom from restriction of every kind, and to abolish the survival of by-gone institutions in the name of economic science; but the principles and sentiments to which the Tories were attached were to have no little share in the positive work of re-constructing a new order, in which human welfare would be the primary consideration. | Diet. Nat. Biog., 8.v. Wilberforce. + Comparatively little progress was made till the philanthropic agitation was re-enforced by political and economic reasons for abandoning the trade as letrimental. Hochstetter, Die wirthschaftlicken Motive fir die Abschaffung Jes britischen Sklavenhandels, 33. + An interesting illustration of the common interest of these classes occurs in ‘he Report of the Select Committee on the Calico-Printers: “ Without entering nto the delicate and difficult question, as to the distribution of profits between Masters and Journeymen, in this as well as the other mechanical professions, Your Committee may venture to throw out, for the consideration of the House, vhether it be quite equitable towards the parties or conducive to the public ‘pterest that on the one part there should arise a great accumulation of wealth, while on the other there should prevail a degree of poverty from which the parties cannot emerge by the utmost exertion of industry, skill and assiduous application, and may at an advanced period of life, notwithstanding perpetual abour, be obliged to resort to parish aid for the support of their families. Is it just that such a state of things should be permitted to exist? Is it fair towards the Landed Interest in those districts in which Manufactories are established :hat they should be called upon to contribute from the Poor Rates to the support of those who ought to be enabled to derive a support from their labour, and who are at the same time contributing to establish a fortune for the Principals of aneh Mannfactories?! Reports. 1806. mi. 1160.

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