Documents of the Industrial Revolution, 1750-1850

Adam Smith advantage agriculture Asa Briggs Birmingham bread Britain British canal capital carriage century classes coal commerce Committee common condition Corn Laws cotton Daniel Defoe districts E. P. Thompson economic effect emigration employed employers employment engines England English Historical Documents expense factories families farmers farms foreign G. R. Porter growth hand History horses houses human improvement income increased Industrial Biography 1863 Industrial Revolution inhabitants invention iron L. T. C. Rolt labour land live Liverpool London Ltd for extracts machinery machines Manchester manufacture master means mechanical miles mill navigation necessary never parish persons Poor Law population present produce Progress prosperity quantity Quoted in English railways Richard Cobden roads rural Samuel Smiles shillings social society Spinner steam supply taxes thousand town turnpike Vol XI wages Wealth of Nations Weavers whole William Cobbett workhouse workmen