An Introduction to the Industrial History of England

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1920. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... Accidents in industry, risk of, placed by insurance upon consumers, 423. Acquitaine, grants to wine merchants from, 151. Administrative nihilism, Webb's allega-tion of, 370. Administrative system, lack of a cen-tralized, 388. Aggregation, of free and of unfree work-ers, 57. Agriculture, basis of prosperity in the Middle Ages, 262; capitalistic farm-ing, 227; the midland system, 226; no ideal system, 228; relation to indus-try, 208, 251; relative importance of, to industry, 260-61; size of farms, 227; yeoman farming, 227. Algeria, French land policy in. 111. Aliens, charters to a. craftsmen, 177; grants of privileges to merchant a., 151. Alien merchants, royal privileges granted to, 146. Allotment, definition of, 240. Allotments, accomplishment of legisla-tion on, 243; acts of 1882 and 1887, 242; compulsory provision of land for, 242; early experiments with, 241; origin of, in the village community, 118-19; provision for, in the Poor Laws, 241; to villagers in the open fields, 115. Amalgamated Society of Engineers, the, constitution and organization of, 523-24; decline of its power, 527; grants during the builders' strike, 525; the model for craft unions, 523; policy of, 524. Amalgamation of railways, projects for, in 1853, 454. Amboyna, massacre at, 278. Ancient Trades Decayed and Repaired Again, the, 279. Antiquity, parallels with the Middle Ages, 41. Apprentices, 72; pauper, 360; signifi-cance of the restriction of number! of, 353. Apprentices, the Statute of, attempts to enforce, about 1800, 354; distin-guished three groups of crafts, 192; implies the existence of a wage-earn-ing class, 193; later significance of, 368; purposes of, 192; purpose of the wage-fixing clauses, 367; wage-fixing clauses, 193. Apprenticeship, 73; attempts to enforce legal provisions ...