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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LAISSEZ FAIRE and tentative; the final form which each measure assumed was the result of compromise; it is singularly hard to trace the connection between opinion and action. There was, ab least, a very general consensus of feeling that something must be done, and that it was worth while for the State to make definite efforts to foster and promote human well-being. We can follow the course of affairs most easily if we fix our which were attention in turn on subjects which successively attracted the necessary . 7 v toreatiseit. consideration of Parliament. There were (a) some measures which tended to the amelioration of existing conditions by giving a better status to the workman personally; (b) some which were specially directed to improving the conditions of work in various callings; while (¢) others embodied attempts Lo ensure more favourable conditions of life. These objects had not of course been wholly ignored even 'n the days when the Industrial Revolution was in full swing, nd laissez faire was dominant. The horrors of the slave rade! and the condition of pauper apprentices generally had leservedly excited commiseration and called forth legislative interference? and charitable efforts, and Acts were passed for ‘mproving the position of Scotch colliers?, for protecting sailors® against evils precisely similar to those to which Mr Plimsoll afterwards called attention’. Some pains were taken to define their proper rations’, and attempts were made to secure the humane treatment of Lascar and other Asiatic sailors during their sojourn in this country’. The continued interest which was shown in improving the con- dition of negro slaves, and the diplomatic engagements with i See above, pp. 477, 607. i «Whereas many grievances have arisen from the binding of poor children as apprentices by Parish officers to improper Persons and to Persons residing at a distance from the Parishes to which such poor Children belong, whereby the 32id Parish Officers and Parents of such Children are deprived of the opportunity of knowing the manner in which such Children are treated and the Parents and Children have in many Instances become estranged from each other,’ etc. 56 Geo. IIL ec. 139. 3 A philanthropic society for training and apprenticing neglected children of both sexes was founded in 1788, and organised an industrial school called the Philanthropic Reforms in 8. George's Fields. An account of the nature and views of the Philanthropic Society, 6. ¢ See above, p. 531. § 31 Geo. ITI. c. 39; 8 and 4 Vic. c. 36. 6 3 Hansard, ccxrv. 1319. 1 80 Geo. III. c. 33. This Act only applied to the African trade. 3 54 Geo. IIT. ec. 134. 748

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