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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778 LAISSEZ FATRE A.D. 1776 national evil; and hence the points, which demanded atten- tion, were the influence of the Factory system on the children who would grow up to be workers, men and women, of the next generation. If there was physical and moral taint at these sources, the future of the English race was imperilled™. The overworking of children, resulting as it often did in physical deformity, occurred -very generally, but there were different degrees in which the evil existed in different branches of the textile trades, and it is necessary to consider them separately. into the i. With regard to the woollen trade, it appears that yn "8 there were considerable differences between the conditions in ployment the West of England and those which existed in Yorkshire, woollen, The Medical Commissioners, after visiting the Stroud Valley, gave exceedingly favourable testimony in regard to the con- ditions of work in that district? and indeed, throughout the West of England district; though the trade was declining? and several mills had been shut up. The Commissioners particularly testified to the kindly interest which the em- ployers in this district took in their hands*; and though there were many matters in which amelioration was possible, they found that the employers were, on the whole, ready to make any improvements, the desirability of which was pointed out; they could find no evidence that seemed to them to justify legislative interference. The employers in Yorkshire were equally sure of their position; the trustees of the White Cloth Hall at Leeds met the Commissioners with a petition for exemption from any proposed legislation, on the ground that there were no abuses in their trade which called for it, but they failed to establish their case. Parts of the work were very dirty, though Mr Power, the District Commissioner, appears to have been satisfied, after his enquiries, that these operations were not deleterious’. From his remarks, it seems, that the one point on which he was thoroughly dissatisfied was the early age at which children went to work in these mills’. “The grand evil,” which offered the supreme ground 1 Reports, efc., 1833, xx. 39, 51. 8 Reports, efc., 1833, Xx. 951, 960. i Reports. 1333, xx. 601, 2 Jb. 1833, xx1. 16. 4 [b. 1006. 8 15. 602, 604.

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