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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546 LAISSEZ FAIRE AD.1776 manufacture goods of a class for which Englishmen believed —1850. . they had exceptional advantages. which The agitation gives us an interesting light on many oi i matters connected with this manufacture. A rise in the ood price of wool would have affected all branches of the trade, and the outery came from many parts of the country. The sutburst was far less local than in 1697; at that time it had been concentrated in the West of England, whence artisans were migrating. A hundred and thirteen firms in London petitioned against permitting export to Ireland, and they were supported by petitions from! Cornwall, Exeter, Totnes, Tiverton, Welshpool, Frome, Bury St Edmunds, Hudders- field, Tavistock, Painswick, Rochdale, Huntingdon, Norwich, Somersetshire, Sudbury, Halifax, Gloucester, Bury, Preston, Market Harborough, Witney, Wiveliscombe, Southwark, Brad- ford, Cirencester, Colne, Burnley, Banbury, Shrewsbury, Leeds. Wakefield, Haworth, Kendal, Addingham, Kidderminster, Keighley, Skipton, Salisbury. A glance at this list shows how widely the trade was diffused; and it is also evident that the manufactures in Yorkshire were coming into promi- nence as compared with those of the Eastern Counties”. Very severe pressure was brought to bear in favour of an amend- ment moved by Mr Wilberforce “ to leave out of the resolution what relates to suffering wool to be exported from this country, out that the Irish should be allowed to work up the wool which they themselves grow”; but Pitt was anxious to carry the complete commercial union of the two countries and argued at length against the amendment, which was lost. Eventually, necessity proved the mother of invention, and serious attempts were made, not only to improve the breed of English sheep, by the introduction of merino-sheep from Spain, but to find some new area, under English control, for Anew pasture-farming. As a result, advantage was taken of the i og facilities afforded by Australia. The development of this feck source of supply was only accomplished gradually, as very serious difficulties had to be overcome. Some sheep were i Bischoff, 1. 321. 3 Norfolk was still “full of manufacturers” in 1779. Parl. Hist. XX. 644. 3 Bischoff, 1. 327.

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