The Industrial Revolution

Bibliographic data

Monograph

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

Usage license:: Get license information via the feedback formular.

SPINNING-JENNIES FOR WOOL 657 by women who had many other duties to do. But the jenny AD. 170 with its twenty spindles was a more elaborate machine, and spinning came to be a definite trade on its own account. It ceased to be carried on in ordinary cottages, by one member of the family or another, and became the regular employment of a particular class of workers, Though the regular spinners might earn more at the jenny than they did before, there must have been an immense reduction in the number of those who had earned a little with their wheels. The domestic jenny was not however destined to last. re Mr Benjamin Gott of Leeds appears to have been the first spinning man in that district to introduce spinning by power’, and Rippsieck factories soon encroached upon the operations of the spinning- jennies. The Yorkshire rates for spinning had been high? and as the machinery was gradually improved, it must have effected an enormous saving. In 1828° power-spinning was introduced into the West of England district, and, as it was calculated, effected a saving of 750 per cent. on the cost of spinning by wheel. The introduction, first of jennies and then of power-spinning, was by far the most important change, so far as its social effects are concerned, in the whole revolu- tion; and when we consider its magnitude, it must be a matter of surprise that the new departure attracted so little attention at the time. 254. The introduction of the flying shuttle appears to Tre flying have had a remarkable result in the improved position of fous. those woollen weavers who continued to get employment at re as the trade. They were paid by the piece, and the price of cloth was rising, owing to the increasing cost of wool ; but the rate of payment to weavers did not diminish. Those who ! Bischoff, Comprehensive History of the Woollen and Worsted Manufacture, . 815, but Hirst seems to have held that he was entitled to this distinction, see selow, p. 661, n. 4. Messrs Toplis had erected a spinning mill for wool at Cuckney, seven miles from Mansfield in Nottinghamshire, as early as 1788. Annals of Agriculture, x. 281. 2 The developing trade of the West Riding found employment for all available hands in 1791; Halifax masters had to pay spinners at the rate of 1s. 8d. or ls. 4d. (Annals, xvI. 428). These high rates were partly due to the concurrent demand for labour for cotton-spinning. Account of Society for Promotion of {ndustry tn Lindsey (1789), Brit. Mus. 103. 1. 56, p. 54. 8 Miles’ Report in Reports from Assistant Hand-Loom Weavers Com- missioners, 1840. xx1v. p. 390. + See above, p. 502. - 4 9

Access restriction

Copyright

fullscreen: The Industrial Revolution

Monograph

Table of contents

Download

Monograph

This page

Image fragment

Citation links

Citation recommendation