Before the Luddites
Subtitle: Custom, Community and Machinery in the English Woollen Industry, 17761809
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 29, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780521893343
Subjects: Manufacturing industries; Social history; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; Industries - General; History; History - General History; History: World; England; Western Europe - General; Business & Economics-Industries - General; History / Europe / Western; History / Great Britain; Wool industry--England--History
First sentence: From the most remote period of the woollen manufacture until about the year 1780 very few if any mechanical improvements had been introduced into it . . .