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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180 LAISSEZ FAIRE A.D. 1776 —1850. them was very considerable; while a frightful amount of dust was set free in the process, and the state of the atmo- sphere in the room was exceedingly bad. iii. The conditions of cotton-spinning were similar, in many ways, to those of flax, though there was nowhere so much dust as in the heckling rooms, and no wet spinning, but the temperature in which the hands worked was often very high; to this, the operatives did not object, but it was anwholesome, and there is no reason to believe there had been any improvement in the state of things which existed in 1816. iv. The silk mills, in 1833, were generally speaking in a most unsatisfactory condition’. The work was chiefly done by girls who were parish apprentices, and there was grave reason for complaint as to the demoralising effect of huddling them together during their years of service, as well as of the reckless manner in which they were cut adrift when they had served their time. In attempting to estimate the general result, it is well to bear in mind that, in 1833, weaving-sheds were not a regular department of a mill, and that the mill hands were chiefly engaged in preparing the materials and in spinning, though in some cases the work of cloth dressing had been added. The early Though there were some differences in the machinery em- ix A. ployed, the necessity of standing for long hours and of mera Stooping was similar in most of them ; and there is abundant wil, evidence that many children were crippled for life and that young women were seriously injured by their occupations. The worsted-spinning at Bradford had a special notoriety in this respect’. The Commissioners rightly connected it with the very early age at which children went to work, and the long hours during which they were employed, and the medical testimony proved that mischief of this kind was common in all the great industrial centres’. The Com- missioners are careful to note that the physical evils due to sotton and silk mills. 1 In this branch of industry, as in the woollen trade, the arrangements in the West of England district were so good that the Commissioners saw no cause for egislative interference. Reports, 1833, xx. 968 (Ap. B. 1, 70). * Reports. 1833, xx. 603. 8 Ih. 32—35.

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