Artisans And Machinery: the Moral And Physical Condition of the ...
Artisans And Machinery: the Moral And Physical Condition of the ...
P Gaskell
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Yftrds. How produced. Damasks 32,701 . . Hand Counterpanes 54,886 . . Hand Shawls, 8ic 690,514 . . Hand and power Tapes, &c 116,413 . . Hand and power Hosiery 468,602 . . Hand Unenumerated 137,709 The yam consumed in these manufactures, spun en- tirely by power, we repeat, amounts to 76,246,339 lbs. whilst, at the same time, we send abroad with these manufactures 67,760,822 lbs. of unmanufactured yam. Thus we perceive that machinery, in the first place, destroyed domestic spinning ; in the seco...nd, it has opened up an immense export trade in yarn ; and, in 1 the third, it condemns the. domestic weaver to clothe the I whole world, whilst he himself is working fourteen hours I a day in rags and poverty. " Nonfactory processes of ' art," says Dr. Ure, " which can be condensed into a single frame, or machine movable by hand, come within the reach of operatives in every adjacent country, and will have their profits reduced ere long to the minimum consistent with the employment of capital in it, and their wages brought down to the scale of those in the cheapest or meanest living country.
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