A woman spinning by hand in her own home in the eighteenth century.

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A woman spinning by hand in her own home in the eighteenth century

Die Handarbeit am Webstuhl wurde im 18. Jahrhundert durch Wasserkraft ersetzt. Das war der entscheidende

Schritt zum Fabriksystem

Was die Frauen früher zu Hause herstellten, wurde nun in Fabriken produziert: Baumwolle, die englische Schiffe in

die ganze Welt transportierten

Spinning with ‘mules‘ in a Lancashire cotton mill in 1834. The boy in the bottom right of the picture is sweeping beneath the machine while it is working.

Child labour in a textile mull. In the early nineteenth century children were often expected to work long hours in conditions which seem terrible to many people today.