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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5862 LAISSEZ FAIRE labour would be eventually required. That had happened in the cotton trade, where the conditions of the supply of materials were quite different, and Sir Robert Peel argued, from his experience as a cotton manufacturer, that the same nied thing would occur in the woollen trade as welll. But he was workmen of entirely mistaken ; the shearmen who had combined in a secret glee society® were perfectly right in believing that they were being ousted from employment by the competition of machines, They had no hope of continuing to live by the trade in which and roused they had been brought up. Under these circumstances, a them into series of attacks on the new machines was ably planned and apposition, yigorously carried out. The shearmen® had a very complete secret organisation, the working of which has been dramati- cally pourtrayed by Mrs G. L. Banks®. One murder occurred in connection with this outbreak, near Huddersfield®, and there was an immense destruction of property. This was the only branch of the Yorkshire clothing trades in which the attempted introduction of machinery was signalised by outbursts of mob violence®. The rioters were closely associated with the Luddites, who had been goaded into violent outbreaks by the distress they endured as framework knitters in Nottinghamshire. The ecircum- stances of the two trades were curiously distinct; the shear- men were agitating against the introduction of a new machine. but this was not the case with the Luddites. as there 1 Reports, 1806, 1. 1033, printed pagination 441. ? They had a powerful combination in Leeds, before 1806, and called out all the shearmen in Mr Gott's employ, because he took two apprentices whose age was not in accordance with their rules. Reports, 1806, mv. 959, printed pagination 367. 8 Report from the Committee on the State of the Woollen Manufacture, 1806, m1. printed pagination 15. 4 Bond Slaves. 5 Report from the Committee of Secrecy (Disturbed Northern Counties), 1812, m. 809. 6 The rioters had been successful in 1780 in preventing the use of frames. {See above, p. 625, n. 8.) Hirst, writing in 1844, says: “ About sixty years ago an attempt was made to introduce machinery for finishing the cloth, both in the West of England and in Yorkshire. The workmen raised the most violent opposition to it, and after a severe struggle the masters in Yorkshire were obliged to abandon the attempt, while in the West of England they succeeded. They thus had a double advantage, for all their goods were manufactured under their own care, while those in Yorkshire were manufactured in various parts and brought to sell in the Cloth Hall, in Leeds, in the balk state. They were then gent out to be finished, for there were few at that time who manufactured and finished cloth.” Hirst, p. 10.

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