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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DISTRESS OF HAND-LOOM WEAVERS 793 fabrics woven by power at a somewhat dearer rate than the AD Lo productions of the hand-loom (taking into consideration the cost of machinery, repairs, and the wages of the workers); but the power-loom manufacturer, as before explained, can execute an order with certainty and despatch, from the regularity of his process; while the employer of cottage weavers can never tell within a fortnight or three weeks when every web sent out to the neighbouring villages will be returned. This disadvantage is partly overcome by assembling aud o the weavers in factories, and requiring them to work under regularity superintendence. The system is also favourable to a large ety, manufacturer, in protecting him, to some extent, against the embezzlement of yarn. His property is safe in his own possession, and he runs no risk of the work being taken out of the loom to be sold or pawned by a dishonest weaver. The subjects of wrangling and dispute between his foreman and the men are also less numerous upon the factory than upon the out-door system. The men have not to lose hours and days in dancing attendance upon the foreman’s leisure; and the daily inspection of the master enables him to see that his directions are understood and followed by all parties’” The struggle, which attracted such attention in 1840, was the last phase of the contest between cottage-industry and factory- industry in the staple manufactures of the country? As a consequence, the line, between the distressed weavers so that and the others, is to be drawn between those who took out oooh materials to weave in their own homes, and those who worked ha of in factories, whether at hand- or power-looms. Weaving i sheds containing hand-looms were coming to be a common appendage to spinning-mills, and these factory hand-loom weavers had little to complain of®. The rates of wages per piece had kept up, at all events in the West of England cloth trade; the trade was on the whole developing, and the factory hand-weavers were apparently absorbed as the power-loom was introduced. The cottage-weavers suffered, however, not so much from low rates of pay as from extreme Reports, 1840, xx1v. 683. * Many of the cottage weavers were small farmers and emigration offered the ‘est hope of relieving them. 8. J. Chapman, Lancashire Cotton Industry, 45. Accounts, ete., 1839, XLII. 522.

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