Chapter XI: Section I: 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

SECTION II

AGRICULTURE AND ENCLOSURE

1. Enclosure Proceedings in the Court of Chancery, 1671 525

2. Advice to the Stewards of Estates, 1731 526

3. Procedure for Enclosure by Private Act, 1766 528

4. Farming in Norfolk, 1771 530

5. A Petition against Enclosure, 1797 531

6. Extracts on Enclosure from the Surveys of the Board
of Agriculture, 1798-1809 532

7. Arthur Young's Criticism of Enclosure, 1801 536

8. Enclosure Consolidating Act, 1801 537

9. General Enclosure Act, 1845 541