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INDUSTRIAL ORGANISATION AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS
1. Defoe's account of the West Riding Cloth Industry, 1724 482
2. Defoe's account of the Woollen Trade (temp. George II) 483
3. Defoe's account of the Corn Trade (temp. George II) 487
4. Defoe's account of the Coal Trade (temp. George II) 491
5. A description of Middlemen in the Woollen Industry, 1739 492
6. Report on the Condition of Children in Lancashire Cotton Factories, 1796 495
7. Newcastle Coal Vend, 1771-1830 497
8. The Old Apprenticeship System in the Woollen Industry, 1806 499
9. A Petition of Cotton Weavers, 1807 500
10. Depression of Wages and its Causes in the Cotton Industry, 1812 501
11. Evidence of the Condition of Children in Factories, 1816 502
12. Change in the Cotton Industry and the Introduction of Power Loom Weaving, 1785-1807 505
13. Evidence by Factory Workers of the Condition of Children, 1832 510
14. Women's and Children's Labour in Mines, 1842 516
15. Description of the Condition of Manchester by John Robertson, Surgeon, 1840 519
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