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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A.D. 1776 1850 well as the repeal of the Com- wnation Aeta. 156 LAISSEZ FAIRE caused by these measures was generally admitted; and a Parliamentary Committee of 1819, on the Relief of the Poor? 2xpressed a decided opinion that “all obstacles to.seeking smployment wherever it can be found, even out of the realm, should be removed and every facility that is reasonable afforded to those who may wish to resort to our own colonies, for it seems not unnatural that this country should at such a jime recur to an expedient which has been adopted success- fully in other times, especially as it has facilities for this purpose which no other state has ever enjoyed to the same extent, by the possession of Colonies affording an extent of occupied territory.” In 1824 a Select Committee of the House of Commons was appointed to make enquiries and take steps for the removal of these disabilities. Huskisson and other statesmen, who were adherents of the school of Adam Smith, were quite ready to recognise the injustice of imposing any obstacles on freedom of individual movement and were prepared for the repeal of the Acts against emigration? but they were by no means clear that it was wise to remove the Combination Laws. Baneful as the Acts were, in creating an atmosphere of suspicion and distrust and forcing the artisan into criminal surroundings, there was some doubt as to the probable effects on the industry of the country, if the measures were repealed, and liberty of association extended to the artisan as well as to other Englishmen. The question of including these Acts in the measure, which was being framed for the removal of other restrictions, long hung in the balance; but some of the most eminent laissez faire economists had the zourage of their principles. McCulloch, who was then editor of the Scotsman newspaper, was fully convinced on this point, and in a trenchant article in the Edinburgh Review® he demonstrated the injustice of the Combination Laws, and argued that no serious mischief could result from their repeal. It is scarcely likely, however, that the experiment would have been tried. if it had not been for the vigour with which + Reports, 1819, 11. 257. } This was effected by 5 Geo. IV. ¢. 97. An det to repeal the Laws relative ta {rtificers going into foreign parts. + Tan. 18924. Vol. xxxIx. 315.

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