Industry in England: Historical Outlines

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Charles Scribner's Sons, 1898 - 479 pages
 

Contents

Physical Aspect of PreRoman Britain
17
CHAPTER II
21
Roman Roads
22
ROMAN BRITAIN 14 Roman Towns in Britain
23
The Romans and Agriculture
25
Celtic and NonRoman Influence in Agriculture
27
Commerce and Industry in Roman Britain
31
CHAPTER III
34
The Saxon Village and its Inhabitants
37
Village Life
38
Methods of Cultivation
40
22
41
23
43
25
47
27
49
Special Privileges of Towns
51
How the Towns obtained their Charters
52
The Gilds and the Towns Various kinds of Gilds
53
How the Merchant Gilds helped the Growth of Towns
54
Evidence from Manorial Courts and Customs
55
Life in the Towns of this time
56
31
57
PERIOD II
61
34
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The Wealth of various Districts
68
37
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38
71
Services due to the Lord from his Tenants in Villeinage
74
Description of an Eleventh Century Village
81
Rise of Towns in England
87
Foreign Trade The Crusades
100
The Trading Clauses in the Great Charter
101
The Jews in England
103
Flemish Weavers
104
Economic Appearance of England in this Period Population The North and South 63 General Condition of the Period
106
PERIOD III
109
CHAPTER VIII
111
Agriculture the Chief Occupation of the People
112
Methods of Cultivation The Capitalist Landlord and his Bailiff The Stock and Land Lease
113
The Tenants Communal Land and Closes 68 Ploughing 69 Stock Pigs and Poultry
116
Sheep
121
Increase of Sheepfarming 72 Consequent Increase of Enclosures
123
SECTION PAGE 77 Foreign Manufacture of Fine Goods
126
Flemish Settlers teach the English Weavers Norwich
127
79 The Worsted Industry
129
Gilds in the Cloth Trade
130
The Dyeing of Cloth
131
The Manufacturing Class and Politics
132
CHAPTER X
134
Staple Towns and the Merchants
135
Markets
138
The Great Fairs
140
The Fairs of Winchester and Stourbridge
142
English Medieval Ports
144
The Temporary Decay of Manufacturing Towns
145
Growth of Industrial Villages The Germs of the Modern Fac tory System
146
CHAPTER XI
149
Social Changes The Villeins and the Wagepaid Labourers
150
The Famine and the Plague
151
The Effects of the Plague on Wages
152
Prices of Provisions
155
Effects of the Plague upon the Landowners
156
the Yeomen
157
The Statute of Quia Emptores
158
The Emancipation of the Villeins
159
CHAPTER XII
161
New Social Doctrines
162
Drawbacks
177
The Struggle for India
178
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The Yeomen
183
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The Commercial and Industrial Changes of the Fifteenth Century
192
PERIOD IV
197
CHAPTER IX
199
The Dissolution of the Monasteries
202
Results of the Suppression
203
Pauperism
205
The Issuing of Base Coin
206
The Confiscation of the Gild Lands
207
THE CONDITION OF THE WORKING CLASSES
208
Bankruptcy and Rapacity of Edward VI s Government
209
Englands Monopoly of Wool
211
The Enclosures of the Sixteenth Century
213
Evidence of the Results of Enclosing
215
Other Economic Changes The Finances
218
Summary of the Changes of the Sixteenth Century
220
Wool and Politics 75 Prices and Brands of English Wool 76 English Manufactures
221
CHAPTER XV
223
Foreign Trade in the Fifteenth Century
224
The Venetian Fleet
225
The Hanseatic Leagues Station in London
227
Trade with Flanders Antwerp in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth
228
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232
Disastrous Effects of the New Industrial System
233
CHAPTER XVI
234
Growth of Trades Unions
239
Exports of Manufactures and Foreign Trade
240
The Revival of the Craft Gilds
246
MANUFACTURES AND MINING
252
Assessment of Wages by Justices The First Poor
253
The Law of Apprenticeship
259
Population
263
Rise of Price of Corn and of Rent
269
Benefits of Enclosures as Compared with the Old Common Fields
275
The Great Inventors
298
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Circumstances Favourable to English Manufactures
305
Seventeenth and Eighteenth
311
CHAPTER XX
321
The Condition of the Manufacturing Population
327
The Revolution in Manufactures and the Factories
347
The Revolution in the Mining Industries
352
CHAPTER XXII
358
English Policy towards the Colonies
364
The Great Continental
370
Politics among the Working Classes
376
Machinery and Hand Labour
383
Richard Oastler
391
Ten Hours Day and Mr Sadler
397
The Various Factory Acts
403
THE RISE AND DEPRESSION OF MODERN AGRICULTURE
427
The Stimulus caused by the Bounties
433
The Depression in Modern Agriculture
439
The Labourer and the Land
445
CHAPTER XXVI
453
Revolution in the Means of Transit
458
Present Difficulties Commercial Crises
464
Overproduction and Wages
470

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