The Age of Industrial Expansion: British Economic and Social History Since 1700

Abraham Darby III agriculture Bank of England bar iron became began Birmingham Board Bristol Britain British building built canal cent Chartist coal Coalbrookdale companies Corn Laws cotton decline demand duties economic eighteenth century electricity employers employment enclosures English established exports factory farmers farming France furnace further George Stephenson Glasgow grew growth houses important improved income increased industry invented iron and steel Keir Hardie labour force Labour Party Lancashire land Liverpool living London machine Manchester manufacture meant ment methods miles mills motor National nationalised needed nineteenth century opened organised plate Poor Law population problem production railways road Robert Owen rose sailing ship schools shipbuilding shortage skilled Society Speenhamland System steam engine steamship strike supply textile tion towns trade unions trams transport Turbinia wages Wales Water Frame wheels whilst women wool woollen workers