Outlines of the Economic History of England: A Study in Social Development

Adam Smith agricultural Arthur Young Bank of England Black Death bullion capital capitalist cloth coins common competition conservatism considerable cotton course crafts craftsmen Crown currency custom demand demesne districts early economic eighteenth century Elizabethan employed employer employment English enterprise evidence evils existed export fact factory favour fifteenth foreign gild merchant gradually growth hand important improvement increase individual Industrial Revolution interest joint stock labour land large scale legislation less London lord machinery manor manorial system manufacturing ment modern monopoly movement municipal organisation Parliament partly pauper period political Poor Law practice probably problem production progress rapidly rates regulation reign restriction result Robert Owen secure seems seventeenth sixteenth century social specialised statute of artificers supply taxation tenants tendency textile thirteenth century tion towns Trade Unionism village wage-earners wages wealth whilst wool workers