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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RAILWAYS AND STEAMERS 811 We are not concerned with the solution of this difficulty, AD ve however, but only with the fact that since 1845 serious attempts have been made to face it. During the second quarter of the lune nineteenth century administrative machinery had been created trative to supervise the conditions of work in many trades and to deal Facony with the conditions of life in general. Henceforth account was op ag to be taken of the principal conditions of welfare, so far as the Fg poorest members of the community were concerned. At first ‘of the sight it seems to be a return, under new forms, to the paternal Soarly government of the Tudor and Stuart monarchy ; but the differ- ence lies deeper than in the fact that the new administrative bodies derive their authority from statute and not merely from the Crown. The new conception of human welfare is larger; the aims of modern officials are more ambitious. Just as we have learned that national wealth consists of the aggregate of individual wealth at least, whatever else it may include, so do we recognise that the aggregate of individual welfare constitutes a large part of national welfare. The Stuarts aimed at promoting definite and important national interests, if need be at the expense of individual interests’, while modern legislation aims at having a regard to all private interests— chiefly by giving them free play, but also, by fostering them when necessary—as the true means of promoting national interest. At no other period have such pains been taken to secure the healthy development, physical and moral, of the rising generation in all parts of the realm, or has there been oy such completely organised national machinery for exercising ™*""" a control over the conditions in which work is done. in ats aims V. FACILITIES FOR TRANSPORT. 273. The staple industries of the country had been The de revolutionised by the introduction of machinery, before serious mands of efforts were made to bring inventive power to bear on im-/acturing proving facilities for transport within the country and by sea. The system of internal communication, both by land and water, had been enormously improved during the last quarter of the eighteenth and the first of the nineteenth century, but 1 See v. 17 above.

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