The Growth of English Society: A Short Economic History, Book 1

abroad agriculture apprentices artisans banks became Black Death capital capitalist cent chartist cloth coal commercial companies corn laws cotton craft gilds decades demand domestic duties early economic eighteenth century employed employers employment engine England entrepreneur export factory system farm farmers favour forces foreign free trade growth hand-loom hundred imports increased Industrial Revolution influence interests inventions iron joint-stock labour laissez-faire Lancashire land later legislation lord machine machinery manor manufactures master mediaeval ment mercantile mercantilist merchant middle ages millions mills movement nineteenth century open field system oversea Parliament political poor law population practice principle production prosperity protection railways raw materials regulated repeal Robert Owen rural seventeenth century ships Sir Ambrose Crowley social steam steel tariffs tenants textile tion towns trade unionism villeins wage-earners wages wealth weavers wool woollen industry workers