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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{ = L = j iy ERS O AN) 3 3 1° x0 hn > en ND oO wh lo») wl - “3 —- oO OQ <0 o w Q NY o — 0 ply mo d INCLOSURE AND THE LABOURERS 711 ic spirited and philanthropic men to remove all 4-D.1776 ie increase of the area of tillage. ’ te were improvers who saw with alarm that the With the ely on imported hind he inere 7 y ported corn was a hindrance to the increasing . . . «the hom of our own agriculture to its highest capacity, in is trade with regret’; and a general consensus of of corn. een reached as to the necessity of doing away yfal methods of cultivation in common fields, and e enclosure of land. The Board of Agriculture, sidency of Sir John Sinclair, moved earnestly in «1d it was fully discussed by Committees of the mmons in 1795, 1797 and 1800. The chief xrying out this improvement lay in the heavy iamentary and legal, which had to be borne, as osts of obtaining surveys and erecting fences. hat if a General Enclosure Act were passed, it in i » considerable saving in the outlay involved”. on. » an encouragement to proprietors to proceed of the kind; while it was also believed that, if were reduced, the real gain, which sometimes e cottagers®, would be more generally realised. eo of 1797 on the Cultivation of Waste lands endorsed the view more clearly exemplify the advantages resulting from agri- than the flourishing state of this country, for many years svolution ; during which period, with but few exceptions, con- 3s of Corn were annually exported. By means of that exporta- rere brought into the kingdom, yet the price was steady and eneral rather low than otherwise. The farmer, however, was he considered himself under the special protection of the 4 a reasonable prospect of having his industry rewarded. But has been relied on, the consequences have been of a very The prices have been often high, and always unsteady. High blic discontent. With unsteady prices, it is impossible for the what he ought to demand, nor the tenant what rent he ought to of small or even moderate incomes, also, such a circumstance is 5. When prices are high, they can scarcely procure for them- unilies a sufficient supply of wholesome provisions; when low, » run into a system of expence, which it is not easy afterwards reas, when the price is steady and uniform, they can make their with their income. The system therefore of encouraging agri- sting the exportation of a surplus on ordinary occasions, which asons can be retained at home, is the only mode of securing the tence of the great body of the people.” ZHeports, 1x. pp. 224-5. 80. 1 Report, quoted in Reports, IX. 204 1. I> < (: or 3 3 nm wn ky > ® QO © o 0

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