The FactoryHoughton Mifflin, 1912 - 109 páginas |
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apprentices Arkwright built Chartism class consciousness cloth clothier common containing two hundred cottage cotton factories cotton industry cotton manufacture craftsmen Crompton demand dition domestic employed English establishment event factory system facture feudal gave giving employment hand hand-loom weaver Hargreaves human important increased Industrial Revolution inventor jenny John Kay Josiah Bounderby Kennington Common laboring poor laboring population Lancashire land later London Lord Lord Grenfell machine Manchester mand manu manufac manufacturing towns master manufacturer means ment mill ning Nottingham operatives Parliament patent penny barber persons political population of England power loom Preston barber produced progress of mankind reform Richard Arkwright riots risen workingmen SIR RICHARD ARKWRIGHT Sir Robert Peel social conditions social discontent social progress spindles spinners spinning machinery spinning-frame spinning-machinery spun steam engine thousand tion to-day toil toilers tory towering factories wealth weaving weft wheel women Wyatt yarn
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Página 80 - An Act for the Preservation of the Health and Morals of Apprentices and others employed in Cotton and other Mills and Cotton and other Factories...
Página 94 - MEN of England, wherefore plough For the lords who lay ye low? Wherefore weave with toil and care The rich robes your tyrants wear...
Página 94 - Sow seed — but let no tyrant reap; Find wealth — let no impostor heap; Weave robes — let not the idle wear; Forge arms — in your defence to bear.
Página 35 - It was no uncommon thing for a weaver to walk three or four miles in a morning, and call on five or six spinners, before he could collect weft to serve him for the remainder of the day ; and when he wished to weave a piece in a shorter time than usual, a new ribbon, or gown, was necessary to quicken the exertions of the spinner.
Página 31 - Within one room being large and long, There stood two hundred looms full strong: Two hundred men the truth is so, Wrought in these looms all in a row.
Página 53 - This great increase of the quantity of work, which, in consequence of the division of labour, the same number of people are capable of performing, is owing to three different circumstances; first, to the increase of dexterity in every particular workman; secondly, to the saving of the time which is commonly lost in passing from one species of work to another; and lastly, to the invention of a great number of machines which facilitate and abridge labour, and enable one man to do the work of many.
Página 94 - Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number, Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you Ye are many - they are few.
Página 79 - ... boys, apprenticed by a parish in London to one manufacturer, had been transferred to another, and had been found by some benevolent persons in a state of absolute famine. Another case more horrible had come to his knowledge while on a Committee...
Página 68 - Meanwhile, at social Industry's command, How quick, how vast an increase! From the germ Of some poor hamlet, rapidly produced Here a huge town, continuous and compact, Hiding the face of earth for leagues — and there, Where not a habitation stood before, Abodes of men irregularly massed Like trees in forests, — spread through spacious tracts, O'er which the smoke of unremitting fires Hangs permanent, and plentiful as wreaths Of vapour glittering in the morning sun.
Página 21 - July in that year, he stated that he "had by great study and long application invented a new piece of machinery, never before found out, practised, or used, for the making of weft or yarn from conon, flax, and wool; which would be of great utility to a great many manufacturers, as well as to his Majesty's subjects in general, by employing a great number of poor people in working the said machinery, and by making the said weft or yarn much superior in quality to any ever heretofore manufactured or...