Edexcel History 2. Industrialisation, Protest, and Unionism

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A self-made Welshman and cotton mill manager, made a partner in his father-in-law David Dale's mill at New Lanark, who advocated for humane approached in factories and cooperation rather than competition as laid out in his 1813-16 work 'A New View of Society'

A machine invented in 1779 by Samuel Crompton, originally hand operated but by the 1790's water or steam powered, with up to 400 spindles effectively killing the domestic spinning industry by 1800

An 1812 act that made the destruction, criminal damage, and entering a building with intent to damage stocking frames a capital offence, repealed in 1814 and effectively reinstated in 1817

Historians who have emphasised the way in which the industrial revolution damaged lives and people's opportunities

The process of enclosing land under the open-field-system into private enclosures, increasing efficiency and thus landowner's profits

The increase in the number of spinning factories from 1770 to 1790

The number of frames destroyed in Nottingham by February 1812

The first factory to use a power loom for weaving cloth, which was attacked and burnt down by hand-loom weavers

An 1848 piece of permissive legislation that established a Board of Health

Increase in banks outside London from 1784 to 1808

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The belief that wellbeing depends on mutual support rather than competition

The percentage of the population of Birmingham living in back-to-backs in 1801

A banking crisis and economic downturn caused by the bursting of the 'railway mania' bubble resulting in the collapse of many local unions

Those industries in which technical innovations and inventions were key to increasing output and profit

An 1871 act under Gladstone and liberal Sir William Erle that legalised trade unions along the line of the minority report

The job of children, employed to wind together broken cotton threads on moving machinery

A new model union founded in 1860 under secretary Robert Applegarth modelled on the Amalgamated Society of Engineers

An act based on a royal commission report that, forbade night working and employment of children under 9, set maximum working hours of 9 hours a day for those aged 9 to 13, and 12 hours a day for those aged 13 to 18, and required 2 hours schooling a day for those under 13

The percentage of workers under the age of 19 in 1842

The years during which Britain was at war with France (excluding the Peace of Amiens)