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The Coming Of The Industrial Revolution Totally Changed The Way The Textile Industry Was Run. Do You Agree With This Statement?

Introduction:

With the ‘Industrial Revolution’ now in Britain, it had made some changes. The results were improved greatly with a massive increase of production of goods between about 1750 and 1870. Because of this change, it was then cheaper for customers to buy goods. It was also cheaper to buy the mass-produced goods. The textile manufacturing is a two-part operation: spinning and weaving. The cotton industry (part of the textile industry) changed Britain mainly in Lancashire and west Yorkshire. In the 19th century, there were over five thousand factories and mills that employed over six hundred thousand people. Nevertheless, some things did not change like the amount of children working in the factories and most of them were very young!

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In the late seventeen hundreds, there were some new machines that had been invented. One of them was the ‘Spinning Jenny’ and was built by and English carpenter named James Hargreaves in 1770 for the textile industry. This machine could spin more than a yarn at a time. This was not all good therefore some of the angry professional hand spinners smashed the early ‘Spinning Jennies.’ The conflict between labour and the new technology had begun.

Machines in the ‘Domestic System’ were all hand powered. Men wove the cloth and the thread. Women and children threaded the wool. Unfortunately, the amount paid depended on the quality, unlike other machines (e.g. Spinning Jenny) were most certainly guaranteed good quality. Sometimes, people did not even get paid!
All the goods manufactured were sold off to the nearest market. Every six weeks, the clothing there was delivered and collected. Compared to factory machines, hand-powered machines were also much slower. It could take several hours to produce clothing hand-powered!

There was some development in the textile machinery. The Spinning Jenny was one of them. In 1733 a watchmaker called John Kay made a shuttle that moved back and forth on wheels. The flying shuttle, as it was called was little more than a boat-shaped piece of wood to which yarn was attached yet it allowed a weaver to work twice as fast.

Gradually, the textile industry was developing new ways and inventions.

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Working environments between the ‘Domestic System’ and the ‘Factory System’ differed. Firstly, the domestic system was mostly in a small home with very little people working in one house. (E.g. About three people.) The factory system had a large mass and hundreds of people working there. In basically all the houses, (domestic system) it was probably cold therefore there was no central heating then. Nevertheless, in the factories it was very humid and stuffy because there were so many workers. It would also be very loud in the factories. This is because the amount of people and the massive machines. In comparison to the homes, it would more likely be quiet therefore the goods produced by the workers depended on their pay. They might consider that and concentrate. (This would be pretty quiet.)

Factories had quite a lot more advantages than the domestic system workers, but there were some crucial dangers in the factories as well. If you were to get caught in a machine, more than likely, nobody would hear because of the loudness. It would be very humid in the factory and you could even pass out.
The domestic system did not have as vital dangers as to the factory workers. Regular pay was not promised for domestic system workers. Only if the goods were produced well would they then get paid. The time you would have to start would be up to you but you would need to finish your producing, so it would have to be an appropriate time. Factory workers needed to be at the factory at a certain time though. Rules would differ from each system. There would not be many rules in the domestic system therefore it is kept very simple. The factory system would have rules. E.g. Timing, Breaks, Finish times etc.

When the Industrial Revolution came to Britain, some of the things in the textile industry did stay the same.
The amount and age of workers in the factories stayed the same and did not have any effect.

Conclusion:

The ‘Industrial Revolution’ made the textile industry one of the most important industries in Britain.

The industrial revolution used the ‘railway’ to deliver, transport and collect. Also, the textile industry used it
Overall, the industrial revolution came to Britain therefore the textile industry had to come up with more ideas and inventions. They had to do this only because the I/R came to Britain.
The fact that more other machines were invented helped the textile industry become very important in Britain.