Social Change in the Industrial Revolution: An Application of Theory to the British Cotton IndustryThis study applies a structural-differentiation model of social change to the industrial revolution in cotton manufacturing in Great Britain, 1770-1840, examining both the industry itself and the family structure of the working classes within it. The author offers controversial interpretations of the issues of the restriction on children's and women's labour, strikes, protest movements, trade unions and cooperative societies. |
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SOME Empty TheoretICAL BOXES | 7 |
FILLING THE BOXES | 21 |
IV | 50 |
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adult analysis Arkwright attempt Britain British capital capitalist Chapter Chartist classes co-operative Committee consumption Cotton Industry Cotton Manufacture Cotton Trade dissatisfaction division of labour domestic early nineteenth century earning eighteenth century employment England exports factory agitation Factory Commissioners Factory Inspectors factory legislation factory operatives factory system family economy family's friendly society functions Furthermore Glasgow Hand-loom Weavers Hence Ibid improvements increase Industrial Revolution instance jenny Leonard Horner London loom machinery machines Manchester Manchester Guardian Manuscripts on Trade masters ment mills motivation mule Napoleonic war occupational organization Parliamentary Papers period Poor Law power-loom pressure production profits putting-out system raw cotton responsible Richard Arkwright Robert Owen Rochdale roles Samuel Crompton Samuel Oldknow savings banks social system spindles spinners spinning Step strikes structural differentiation sub-system symptoms of disturbance tion Trade Unionism units value-system values Wadsworth and Mann wages water-frame weaving Webb Manuscripts women workers yarn