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The Age of Industrialisation
Women workers in Britain attacked the Spinning Jenny.
The fear of unemployment made women workers hostile to the introduction of new technology. When the Spinning Jenny was introduced in the woollen industry, women who survived on hand spinning began attacking the new machines. This conflict over the introduction of the jenny continued for a long time.
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Why did industrial production in India increase during the First World War?
Select any one industry in your region and find out its history. How has the technology changed? Where do the workers come from? How are the products advertised and marketed? Try and talk to the employers and some workers to get their views about the industry's history.
Which was the first modern industrial nation of the world?
Industrial Revolution referred to
Why could not the merchants expand production within towns in Britain?
The early phase of industrialisation, in which large scale production was carried out for industrial market, not at factories but in decentralised production unit, was referred to as:
By the beginning of nineteenth century, Indian textile exports:
Guilds were associations of
How many workers were employed by each merchant at each stage of cloth production in England before the Industrial Revolution?
What was the first symbol of the new era in Britain?
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