Publications of the University of Manchester: Historical series, Volum 36The University Press, 1920 |
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Publications of the University of Manchester: Historical series, Edició 46 William Alfred Morris Visualització completa - 1927 |
Publications of the University of Manchester: Historical series, Edicions 34-35 Visualització completa - 1920 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 84 - He that withholdeth corn, the people shall curse him : but blessing shall be upon the head of him that selleth it.
Pàgina 8 - Smyrna, and at home worke the same, and perfect it into fustians, vermillions, dimities, and other such stuffs, and then return it to London, where the same is vented and sold, and not seldom sent into foreign parts, who have means, at far easier termes, to provide themselves of the said first materials.
Pàgina 135 - ... of all cottages and small farms was the labour attached to the hand-wheel, and when it is considered that it required six or eight hands to prepare and spin yarn, of any of the three materials I have mentioned, sufficient for the consumption of one weaver, this shows clearly the inexhaustible source there was for labour for every person from the age of seven to eighty years (who retained their sight and could move their hands) to earn their bread, say one to three shillings per week, without...
Pàgina 27 - Encyclopedia there is an interesting account of the organisation of the fustian trade about the middle of the seventeenth century. " Fustians were manufactured in quantities at Bolton, Leigh, and other places adjacent; but Bolton was the principal market for them, where they were bought in the grey by the Manchester dealers, who finished and sold them in the country.
Pàgina 60 - Within the last twenty or thirty years the vast increase of foreign trade has caused many of the Manchester manufacturers to travel abroad, and agents or partners to be fixed for a, considerable time on the Continent, as well as foreigners to reside at Manchester. And the town has now in every respect assumed the style and manners of one of the commercial capitals of Europe.
Pàgina 152 - I pushed on, intending to have a good share in the spinning line, yet I found there was an evil which I had not foreseen, and of much greater magnitude than giving up the machine, viz., that I must always be teaching green hands, employ none, or quit the country ; it being believed that if I taught them they knew their business well. So that for years I had no choice left but to give up spinning, or quit my native land. I cut up my spinning machine for other purposes.
Pàgina 133 - From the year 1770 to 1788 1 a complete change had gradually been effected in the spinning of yarns. That of wool had disappeared altogether, and that of linen was also nearly gone ; cotton, cotton, cotton, was become the almost universal material for employment.
Pàgina 94 - Finding that several of the Lancashire manufacturers were using the jenny, Hargreaves gave notice of actions against them : the manufacturers met, and sent a delegate to Nottingham, who offered Hargreaves...
Pàgina 135 - The father of a family would earn from eight shillings to half-a-guinea at his loom ; and his sons, if he had one, two, or three alongside of him, six or eight shillings each per week : but the great sheet-anchor of all cottages and small farms...