Transcriber’s Note Italic text displayed as: _italic_ By Jonathan Thayer Lincoln THE FACTORY. THE CITY OF THE DINNER-PAIL. HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY BOSTON AND NEW YORK THE FACTORY THE FACTORY BY JONATHAN THAYER LINCOLN [Illustration: decoration] BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY The Riverside Press Cambridge 1912 COPYRIGHT, 1912, BY JONATHAN THAYER LINCOLN ALL RIGHTS RESERVED _Published January 1912_ TO MY FATHER NOTE This essay is based upon a course of lectures delivered before the Amos Tuck School of Administration and Finance associated with Dartmouth College. These lectures were subsequently printed in _The Mediator_, a magazine published in Cleveland, Ohio, and devoted to establishing a better social understanding between the man who buys and the man who sells labor. BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE In preparing the historical part of this essay I have consulted many authorities, and in particular I have made free use of the following works. DEFOE, Daniel A plan for the English Commerce, London, 1728. BAINES, Edward History of the Cotton Manufacture in Great Britain. London, 1835. GUEST, Richard A Compendious History of the Cotton Manufacture. Manchester, 1823. The Theory and Practice of Cotton Spinning. Glasgow, 1833. URE, Andrew, M.D. The Philosophy of Manufactures. London, 1835. BABBAGE, Charles On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures. London, 1822. CARLYLE, Thomas Essay on Chartism. TAYLOR, Richard Whately Cooke- The Modern Factory System. London, 1891. ABRAM, Annie Social England in the Fifteenth Century. London, 1909. Among the many articles printed in the periodical press the following from the _Quarterly Review_ are especially helpful. Vol. XLI, 1829. Condition of the English Peasantry. Vol. LVII, 1836. The Factory System. Vol. LXVII, 1841. Infant Labour. CONTENTS I. The Industrial Revolution 3 II. Sir Richard Arkwright 16 III. Mechanical Inventions 30 IV. The Factory System 46 V. The Factory Towns 64 VI. Chartism 85 VII. The Factory and Social Progress 99 INTRODUCTION