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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THE WAR AND FLUCTUATIONS IN MARITIME INTERCOURSE 687 the patience of the United States had been exhausted. The A) me American supporters of Great Britain were foiled; war was ’ declared in 1812. and the quarrel, with all its disastrous conse- quences to trade and industry, was only healed at the Congress of Vienna. With the establishment of peace, in 1815, maritime com- With the munication was of course resumed, but material prosperity } did not at once revive. Indeed the depression affected all 7% sides of national life simultaneously, and gave rise to expres- sions of complaint in many quarters. “During the earlier part of the year, the distress had appeared particularly confined to the agricultural labourers, at least the evils pressing upon them were those which had almost exclusively engaged the attention of the parliamentary speakers. But as the season advanced, and an unusual inclemency of weather brought with it the prospect of a general failure in the harvests of Europe, and a rapid rise in the corn market, much more serious distress burst forth among the manu- facturing poor, who began to murmur that their reduced wages would no longer satisfy them with bread. “By the sudden failure of the war-demand for a vast peiagar 4 , , epression variety of articles, which was not compensated as yet by the ensued: recovery of any peace-market, foreign or domestic, thousands of artisans were thrown out of employment, and reduced to a state of extreme want and penury. A detestable spirit of conspiracy, which manifested itself in the early part of the year in the counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, Huntingdon, and Cambridge, directed against houses, barns, and rick-yards, which were devoted to the flames, was probably the result of a want of agricultural employment, joined to the love of plun- der. But the distressing scenes which afterwards took place amongst the colliers of Staffordshire, and the attempts made by the assembled workmen of the iron manufacturing districts of South Wales, to stop by force the working of the forges, arose from the causes above referred to. In general, however, the workmen conducted themselves without violence, and re- ceived with gratitude the contributions made for their relief. “The general sense of suffering found vent throughout the country in meetings called for the purpose of discussing the

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