ACTING AS AN AMATEUR HISTORIAN

1. ACTING AS AN AMATEUR HISTORIAN Weaver in the domestic system could not compete with factory production. This 1788 petition by weavers in Leeds (Great Britain) shows them complaining about the effects of machines on workers: The Scribbling-Machines have thrown thousands of your petitioners out of employ, whereby they are brought into great distress, and are not able to [find] maintenance for their families, and [are] deprived them of the opportunity of bringing up their children. The number of Scribbling-Machines exceeds all belier, being no less than one hundred and seventy? And as each machine will do as much work in twelve hours as ten men can in that time do by hand, and they work night and day, one machine will do as much work in one day as would otherwise employ twenty men. We therefore hope that feelings of humanity will lead those in power to prevent the use of these machines. What are our children to do: are they to be brought up in idleness? It is no wonder to hear of so many executions; though illiterate men, our conceptions are that bringing children up and keeping them employed is the way to keep them from falling into those crimes, which an idle habit naturally leads to. Why did Lobley oppose the new industrial machinery? _____________ ___________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________

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