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1767: Spinning Jenney - James Hargraves 1778: First Watt engine (animated) 1786: Leeds Woolen Workers Petition 1791: Letter from Leeds Cloth Merchants 1794: Observations on the Loss of Woollen Spinning 1795: Manchester Becomes a Thriving Industrial City - John Aikin 1798: An Essay on the Principle of Population - Thomas Malthus 19c: Images of the Industrial Revolution in England 19c: Table Showing the Comparative Weight of Factory & Non-Factory English Children 1800: Petition for Poor Relief 1802: The Health and Morals of Apprentices Act 1806: House of Commons Select Committee on The Woollen Industry 1807: Child Labor in Cotton Factories - Robert Southey, Letters from England 1812: A Luddite attack on a Yorkshire mill 1812: Luddite Oath 1813-49: Various Descriptions of Workhouse Children, England 1814: The English Corn Laws 1816: Evidence of James Pattison (on the state of health and morals of children employed in manufactories) 1818: Observations on the Effects of the Manufacturing System - Robert Owen 1819: Opposition to the Chimney Sweepers' Regulation Bill 1819: The Six Acts 1823: "The Steam Loom" - Richard Guest 1830s?: Power Loom - weaving in England 1830: Wages of Factory Workers in Leeds - statistical chart 1831: Various Comments on the London Reform Riots of 1831 1831-32: Transcripts from the Sadler Commission Investigation 1832: Sadler Commission Report on Child Labor - testimony of Joseph Habergam, 17 years of age 1832: Debates Amongst Lyonnais Weavers and Republicans 1832: Dr. Samuel Smith's Testimony to the House of Commons 1832: Health in the Factory and in the Mine - John Rule 1832: Macauley On Parliamentary Reform 1832: The Moral and Physical Conditions of the Working Classes of Manchester in 1832 - Sir James Kay-Shuttleworth 1832: Reform Act (Britain) 1832: Speech of Michael Sadler in the House of Commons on the second reading of the Factories Regulation Bill 1832-42: The Life of the Industrial Worker in 19c England - several docs. 1833: Age of Workers in Cotton Mills in Lancashire, England - statistical chart 1833: An Act Abolishing Slavery Throughout the British Colonies 1833: The Factory Act 1833: Minutes of Mark Best's evidence taken before the Committee on the Factories Bill 1833: The People's Charter 1833: Report of the Commissioners on the employment of children in factories 1833: "A Well Conducted Factory" - article in The Penny Magazine 1834: The Lyon Uprising 1834: The Poor Laws Amendment Act 1834: "To the Straw Bonnet Makers" - in the Owenite journal, The Pioneer 1835: "Notes on a Journey to the Mines of Cornwall and Wales" - article in The Penny Magazine 1835: "The Philosophy of the Manufacturers" - Andrew Ure 1838: The Barnsley Manifesto 1838: The First National Petition (England) 1839: Leonard Horner, Inspector of Factories for the British government, commenting on the implementation of the 1833 Factory Act 1839-40: The view of a soldier on Chartist activity in the north of England - from the diaries of Sir Charles Napier 1840: Conditions in Nottingham in 1840 - General Sir Charles Napier 1840s: Condition of the Poor in Manchester - John Layhe 1841: Robert Peel's Speech on the Corn Laws 1841: Splinter movements from Chartism - criticism by Feargus O'Connor, Northern Star (4/3) 1842: Chadwick's Report on Sanitary Conditions 1842: The Debate on the 1842 Charter 1842: Duncombe's Speech Introducing the 1842 Charter 1842: The Factory System Illustrated - "Mary Bucktrout" - William Dodd 1842: Public Reaction to the Disclosure of Conditions in the Coal Mines - Conservative Party's periodical, the Quarterly Review 1842: Shaftesbury's Speech in Commons on Conditions in the Mines 1842: Testimony Gathered by Ashley's Mines Commission 1842: Thomas Macaulay's speech against Chartism 1843: Agricultural Conditions in Ireland - reported by Captain Kennedy, Secretary to the Devonshire Commission 1843: "Capital and Labor" - an 1843 English cartoon on the exploitation of children in the mines 1844: Industrial Manchester - Friedrich Engels 1844: Introduction to The Condition of the Working Class in England - Friedrich Engels 1844: Shaftesbury's Speech in Commons on the Ten-Hour Act 1845: "Cheap Clothing" - political cartoon by John Leach in Punch 1845: Conditions in Manchester - Charles Cavendish Greville's Memoirs 1845: An extract from Lord John Russell's Edinburgh Letter of 11/22 to support Peel's repeal of the Corn Laws 1845: Industrial Conditions in Manchester, England 1845: Prince Albert's memorandum on the Corn Laws (12/25) 1845: "A Wise Factory Owner" - Parliamentary Papers 1845, XXV, pp. 456-7 (Britain) 1846: Sir Robert Peel's Speech on the Repeal of the Corn Laws 1846: Sir Robert Peel's speech resigning from the House of Commons 1847+: English Views of the Irish Potato Famine 1848?: A Letter in Reply to a Hand-Bill published by the Curate of Rotherham, criticizing Chartism 1848: The People's Charter mid-19c: "Cripples in the Yard of Children's Home in London" - picture 1859: Self-Help - Samuel Smiles 1861: Study of London Labour and the London Poor, Volume I - Henry Mayhew 1863: Utilitarianism (Chapter 1 - General Remarks)- John Stuart Mill 1867: Reform Act (Britain) 1870-1913: Tables Illustrating the Spread of Industrialization in the Western World