The early English cotton industryDaniels, George W. (George William)
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The early English cotton industry
Daniels, George W. (George William)
Cotton machinery; Cotton trade -- Great Britain
_State Papers Domestic_, 5_n._, 6, 7, 8_n._, 13_n._, 17_n._, 18_n._,
19_n._, 31, 66, 195, 196
Stirling, W., & Sons, 172
Stockport, food riots in 1757, 43_n._;
muslin manufacture, see Oldknow
Stones, H., first made mules after Crompton, 123;
improved mule, 123
Strutt, J., in partnership with Arkwright, 98, 103;
of yeoman class, 142
T
Taunton Cloth, 6
Tawney, R. H., _Assessment of Wages by Justices of Peace_, 49_n._
Taylor, patented a spinning machine, 78
Tenters, use of, prohibited, 5
Thompson, R., & Sons, 172
Throstle, an improvement of water-frame, 163
Tipping, S. and G., linen drapers, of Manchester, 32 and _n._, 34.
See Chetham, H. and G.
Todd, Shorbridge & Co., 172
Tooke, _History of Prices_, 83_n._
Touchet, J. T. and G., & Co., 172
Travelling merchants, or Manchester men, method and scale of business,
61-62
Trade unions, see Combinations;
development checked by Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, 55, 148
Truck payments. See Acts (1702)
U
Ulm, fustian industry of, xxii.
Unwin, Prof. G., _Industrial Organisation in XVIth and XVIIth
Centuries_, 4_n._, 36_n._, 49_n._, 53 and _n._, 66_n._, 101_n._;
_Gilds and Companies of London_, 66_n._
Ure, _Cotton Manufacture_, 16_n._, 29_n._, 76_n._, 81_n._, 119,
122_n._, 131_n._, 162
V
Venice, cotton imports of, xxii.
Vermilions, manufactured from cotton-wool from Cyprus and Smyrna, 8
W
Wages, effects of new machinery on, 90-91;
of hand-loom weavers, 1795-1807, 134_n._
Wakefield traders support Manchester Act (1736), 24
Water-frame, see Arkwright, Throstle; was outcome of previous efforts,
145;
complementary to jenny, 80;
spinning and winding simultaneous with, 81;
horse-power employed with, 81;
useful for coarser counts and warp yarn, 124;
incapable of spinning weft or producing thread of fine texture,
172-173, 179, 180, 186, 190;
influence on expansion of cotton industry, 179
_Ware, Life and Correspondence of S. Hibbert_, 58_n._, 63_n._
Warrington, industries and numbers employed in eighteenth century,
28_n._
Wars:
Seven Years’ War and War of American Independence, cause heavy
taxation, 63;
and dislocation of trade and distress, 46, 86-89;
French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, economic effects of, 83,
130, 144;
intensified effects of economic change, 146;
checked movement for social development, 146-148;
Napoleonic War, social retrogression due to, 146-148;
repression and class legislation due to, 146-147;
situation created by, compared with European War, 147;
dominant factor in social and economic history, 147-148;
left disturbed industrial relationships, 148;
caused fluctuation of trade and distress, 154;
crisis of 1810, 154;
with America in 1812, 154
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